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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cron and umask Post 302907184 by rbatte1 on Thursday 26th of June 2014 12:18:01 PM
Old 06-26-2014
Could this be the umask of the root user when it starts the crond daemon?

You don't say what OS you are running, but as a stab, have a look in /etc/init.d to see if you can find a script that starts crond. It might also be in /etc/inittab which might make things a little trickier. It might be possible to achieve what you want there and restart cron or maybe not.

There is a risk that in trying to change it, we might break something else, so be careful.

What OS and version are you running?



Robin
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

init.sma

init.sma(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      init.sma(1M)

NAME

       init.sma - start and stop the snmpd daemon

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/init.d/init.sma start | stop | restart | status

DESCRIPTION

       The  init.sma  utility  is  run automatically during installation and each time the system is rebooted. This utility manages the snmpd. See
       snmpd(1M).

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       start

	   Starts the snmpd daemon.

       stop

	   Stops the snmpd daemon.

       restart

	   Stops then starts the snmpd daemon.

       status

	   Reports the snmpd daemon's status.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsmagt 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Unstable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       snmpd(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    5 Mar 2003							      init.sma(1M)
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