Re: umask interpreted backwards in "-m umask" option?

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

On Linux, check `man 2 umask` to see how that works.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Shaiming Hsiung <shaiming.hsiung () gmail com
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  Snort run as a superuser typically dumps logs with 0600 permissions.
>
>  I am trying to make them readable also by other users in the group.
> However, when running:
>
>  $ sudo snort --daq ipq -Q -d -m 0640 -c my.snort.conf -l my/log/dir/
>
> the log files have permissions:
>    -----r-rw-
> instead of
>    -rw-r-----
>
>  It seems that the octal digits are being interpreted backwards.
> Is that a bug?
>
>  Snort version is 2.9.1.2.
>
>
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