Re: problem with Hobbes

On 09/10/08 10:44 pm, Meinolf Sondermann wrote:

It appears that someone has manually done a 'chmod a+r' on the files, without fixing the umask for new uploads.

If you're talking just about "/pub/incoming", then this behaviour is intentional. Files in "/pub/incoming" are not downloadable until they are about a week old. This is done, to prevent private date exchange via this space which was a big problem when it was still open.

If that is now the official policy, then that is unfortunate (although understandable).
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