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20000110: McIDAS data file permissions

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  • Subject: 20000110: McIDAS data file permissions
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:18:40 -0500 (EST)
I'm having a problem where the data files created by mcidas on our server
are being written with file permissions of 666 instead of 664.  This is
affecting AREA and GRID files as well as the STRTABLE file.  I have
manually set the permissions back to 664 but I'd like to know what is
causing this.  I upgraded mcidas from 7.4 to 7.6 over the Christmas break
and everything else _seems_ to be running correctly.  I checked to umask
in mcidas' .cshrc and .mcenv as well as the ldm's umask and they are all
set to 002.  I'm not sure what else to check.  I didn't see anything in
the support achives related to this.  Thanks. 

Mark Tucker
Information Technology
Lyndon State College
address@hidden

>From address@hidden  Fri Jan 14 13:44:59 2000

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Mark Tucker wrote:

> 
> I'm having a problem where the data files created by mcidas on our server
> are being written with file permissions of 666 instead of 664.  This is

I think I've corrected the problem.  

Mark Tucker
Information Technology
Lyndon State College
address@hidden