jm at jmason.org wrote:
> Hi all --
>> a quick Debian question. I've migrated from Dead Rat/Fedora Core with
> quite a lot of success, except for one niggling annoyance -- the way
> debian chmods most of the /var/log files to mode 600.
>> I'm on a single-user machine. I don't want to have to sudo to check
> a logfile. Is there a way to override this to 644?
>> --j.
edit /etc/profile
The last line should be umask 022
change that and your done, thats for all profiles. to change it for yourself
add the command 'umask 644' to your .profile
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