CNews problems

[Henry Spencer]

In article <8912041651.AA01167 at twiddle.eng.umd.edu> djm at twiddle.eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
>>The only way I know of that stuff could get created unreadable
>>is if your umask was set to turn off the read bits, and chmod will *not*
>>override that (i.e., "chmod +rx" probably wouldn't have helped).
>
>However, "chmod a+rx" *will* override the umask.

I'm reluctant to do so as default, however, on the assumption that the
umask is usually set for a good reason.  We've had a suggestion in the
past that it would be nice to have a permission checker to report
odd-looking permissions on a supposedly-correctly-installed system...
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