James, On Friday 21 October 2005 14:49, James D. Parra wrote:
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Files are created according to what "umask" is set to, "man umask" and....
Thanks Sid. Use umask 000 on the dir and all new files created get rw-rw-rw- perm's, but after the user logs out and back in all subsequent files get rw-r--r-- perm's. How do you make the umask setting permanent?
Using a umask "on a directory" is not how it works. Each process has its own umask value and it is passed on to child processes (as are many process parameters, such as the environment variables) when the process forks. As for making the umask "permanent," you should set it in your .bash_profile or .login (assuming you use BASH--other shells have comparable mechanisms).
Thank you,
~James
Randall Schulz