Re: umask doesn't work with shellcommands

[Mark . Burgess]

On 28 Mar, Avi Green wrote:
> Dear fellow cfengineers,
> 
> A few days ago, I noticed that cfengine (1.5.4) seems to be running my
> shellcommands with a umask of zero.  I tried adding the umask attribute
> as indicated by the cfengine reference:
> 
>         stage1.linux::
> 
>                 "/bin/sh -c 'echo umask: `umask`; > foo; mkdir Foo; ls
> -ld foo Foo; rm -r foo Foo'"
>                         umask=0022
> 
> But when I run it I get "Illegal shellcommand attribute".
> 
> Am I doing something obviously wrong?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Avi
> 
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This was correct behaviour and it was always intended to be
that way, but I decided to change it anyway, since so many
people were running into trouble. Ideally everyone should
set their own umask, but no one seems to do it. You
should upgrade to 1.6.3 where you have the adittional
possibilty of inheriting umask from shell or setting your
own per process.

Mark

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