On Dec 8, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> There are some ports that insist on changing permissions on some directories.
> An example is clamav, which will always change /var/db/clamav mask to 755.
> 
> Since I always need to "chmod 775 /var/db/clamav" after an upgrade, I'm 
> asking:
> _ where does this come from? I tried to look into Makefile, but didn't get to 
> it;

Is the umask setup in your shell 022 or 002?

With the FreeBSD tendency to always allocate both a user and group together,
having group-writable be a default option is reasonable, but most software tends
to assume that only the owner should have write access and not group write.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck

_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"

Reply via email to