Re: [vile] vile-9.7q.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 27 May 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 08:50:00AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 May 2009, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > > So, this might explain why my .vilerc is not read anymore, it is mode
> > > 664 as are many config files in my homedir.  I'm wondering, where
> > > can this trace be seen, I get no errors/warnings?
> >
> > setting mine to 664, then
> >
> >         :set popup-msgs
> >         :source .vilerc
> >
> > gives
> >
> > [Skipping '.vilerc' (insecure permissions)]
> > [Skipping '/home/dickey/.vilerc' (insecure permissions)]
> > [No such file ".vilerc"]
>
> Yes, the problem is that I can set popup-msgs in my .vilerc, but it
> is never reached because it's mode 664 and therefore ignored.
> So we seem to have a cyclic issue here.

I see.  Is there a good reason for making dot-files 0664?  (I don't do 
that of course; I do recall some pre-configured accounts setting umask of 
002, though it's easy to find opinions against that).

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