On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:59:22PM -0700, Dan Anderson wrote: > > All these are good, umaks 027 like I expected. However, in /root: > > # head .cshrc > . . . > > umask 022 > > # head .profile > . . . > > umask 022 > > Setting the root umask to 027 will break Solaris. Some files and > directories need to be world-writable.
Yes, please don't set root's umask to 027, not 077. > > Also, may I ask why sendmail isn't shut-up by default? > > Because it doesn't need to be. It's set to local only--no mail is > received from other hosts. This allows system and software messages > to still function. But it does try to resolve the hostname periodically, which can get annoying (it's outbound traffic you might not want. MUAs nowadays speak SMTP directly, so sendmail is less and less necessary. I don't know that we've gotten to the point where we can just turn it off though. Nico --
