Executable bit set on some files at ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Browsing ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com I've found that some files has 
executable bit set on.

Consider (using cmdline ftp, or MC, or another UN*X-oriented ftp client):

/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/SRPMS/system-config-users-1.2.47-1.fc5.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/5/i386/system-config-users-1.2.47-1.fc5.noarch.rpm

/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/SRPMS/pango-1.14.6-2.fc6.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/SRPMS/tsclient-0.148-5.fc6.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/i386/pango-1.14.6-2.fc6.i386.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/i386/pango-devel-1.14.6-2.fc6.i386.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/6/i386/tsclient-0.148-5.fc6.i386.rpm

/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/automake14-1.4p6-13.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/automake15-1.5-16.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/automake16-1.6.3-8.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/automake17-1.7.9-7.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/latex2html-2002.2.1-6.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/man-pages-de-0.4-11.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/perl-Devel-Symdump-2.0601-1.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/perl-File-MMagic-1.27-1.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/perl-Frontier-RPC-0.07b4-1.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/perl-Net-IP-1.25-2.fc6.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/perl-Net-Telnet-3.03-5.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/perl-URI-1.35-3.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/perl-XML-SAX-0.14-2.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/perl-XML-Simple-2.14-4.fc6.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/psgml-1.2.5-4.3.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/pydict-0.3.0-9.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/redhat-menus-6.7.5-3.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/switchdesk-4.0.8-6.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/system-config-cluster-1.0.29-1.0.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/system-config-lvm-1.0.18-1.2.FC6.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/system-config-netboot-0.1.41-1.FC6.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/system-config-rootpassword-1.1.9-1.src.rpm
/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/xorg-x11-filesystem-7.1-2.fc6.src.rpm

etc...

Is it some kind of mess, or it has some special meaning? 8)

Does used ftp-server support umask?

Someone just used a flash with fat filesystem to move files?


Dmitry Butskoy
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