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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Annoying pkg_add feature
Message-ID: <DH2MH4.335@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 19:36:37 GMT
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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I changed the permission and group on the subdirectories of /usr/local
to allow group write, which is what I want.  However pkg_add keeps
changing them back!  This doesn't seem like reasonable default
behaviour...

-- Richard

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