Re: [Gaim-devel] AIM Spam

[John P. <jp...@ci...>]

Ka-Hing Cheung wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:13:58PM -0500, Ethan Blanton wrote:
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>>Ka-Hing Cheung spake unto us the following wisdom:
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>>>Also all the log files are by default world readable, although I
>>>wouldn't care, someone may.
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>>As of Not Long Ago, the directories they are in are certainly not
>>world readable ... therefore the files themselves don't matter.
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>Okay, I was not aware of this. Maybe gaim should do a chmod when it's started,
>so the permission would be set to the new value for people who've been using
>gaim for a while? But then this would create issues for people who really want
>their logs to be world readable.
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>- Ka-Hing
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Shouldn't the logs default to the user's umask?

-jp

>>Ethan
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>>-- 
>>To surrender one's personal weapon is to invite disaster. This has
>>been obvious for so long and so often that there is probably a Greek
>>word for the practice.
>>		-- Jeff Cooper
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