[wplug] umask

[Brian Medley]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 01:31:34PM -0400, Chris wrote:

> I am trying to install Courier-IMAP and it says "set your umask to 022
> before running make install or make install-strip".
> 
> Now being that I am still new to Linux, I am not familiar with this.  The
> will change the permissions, right?  If I am running as root, why would I
> need to do this?  

My guess is b/c the don't use "normal" methods to install the files.
Usually, a program will change the permissions / ownership of the files for
you when doing a make install, usually using the "install" program.

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