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From: John Wiersba <John.Wiersba@medstat.com>
To: "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" <lhall@rfk.com>,
        John Wiersba <John.Wiersba@medstat.com>,
        "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" <cygwin@hotpop.com>
Subject: RE: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:52:43 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 4:27 PM
> To: John Wiersba; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache
>
> You might want to 
> check your umask
> setting and make sure it doesn't mask out write permissions for group 
> and others...

My umask was set to 02.  I changed it to 0 and created a new file, but -w
still fails.

-- John


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