Re: weird permission on mandoc.db, fixed, but why?

Sorry I'm answering my own mail.  At that time the mandoc.db was
updated, I installed some packages, nginx, php72, could having a wrong
umask in my shell have caused this?

Regards,

-peter

On 1/30/19 7:49 PM, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did something I should not have done.  I wrote a manpage and placed
> it in /usr/share/man/man7/ instead of /usr/local/... However when I
> did this the permissions on mandoc went screwy I don't know why.
>
> beta# ls -lh /usr/local/man/mandoc.db
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   862K Jan 28 20:56 /usr/local/man/mandoc.db
> beta# chmod 644 /usr/local/man/mandoc.db
> beta# crontab -l | grep umask
> beta# ls -lc /usr/share/man/man7/alphabet.7
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2845 Jan 28 15:02
> /usr/share/man/man7/alphabet.7
> beta# umask
> 022
>
> It also couldn't have been weekly crontab, it runs at 3:30AM,
> something else caused the mandoc.db to be rebuilt and inherited a
> weird umask.
>
> Unfortunately this is all I can give to try to backtrack what
> happened.  Ideas for next time to prevent this  or suggestions how
> this happened would be nice.
>
> I grepped through the mandoc source and didn't find a mention of umask.
>
> Regards,
>
> -peter