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20010725: GEMPAK 5.6.d.1 File Perms

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  • Subject: 20010725: GEMPAK 5.6.d.1 File Perms
  • Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:17:37 -0600
>From: Daryl Herzmann <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200107251843.f6PIhP123710

>Hello,
>       I have downloaded GEMPAK 5.6.d.1 in order to start work on
>compiling IRIX binaries and I noticed that a bunch of files have
>permissions like 640 or 750 on them.  Is there a reason for this?  In my
>situation, it causes applications to die when a non-gempak user tries to
>use programs like Nmap, etc...
>
>ls -l resource/Nmap
>-rw-r-----    1 nawips   nawips       7546 Jun  1 13:22 resource/Nmap
>
>
>Thanks,
>       Daryl
>
>


Daryl,

The files come to us from NCEP that way due to the umask settings
they have. I have to "chmod -R o+r" the distribution here before making the
final release....which I'm working on.

I reposted the tarfile (or you can do the recursive chmod on your directory).

Steve Chiswell