hi!
did someone reinstall darcs recently? some time ago there was a workaround set up for pre 2.0 darcs. the binary was replaced with a script that sets umask before calling darcs. see the file darcs-script and darcs-bin below... they are the traces of the old setup.
alendvai@clnet:~/dwim/public_html/darcs/eseho$ ll /usr/bin/darcs* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2487276 Feb 12 2005 /usr/bin/darcs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2487276 Feb 12 2005 /usr/bin/darcs-bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 45 Jul 6 2006 /usr/bin/darcs-script
/usr/bin/darcs was a symlink pointing to /usr/bin/darcs-script, but not anymore. any thoughts?