umask

Hugo's question, and Patrick's answer (thanks) reminded me of something else I've been missing: How do I set the umask for a certain directory? Say I have a directory, a samba share, say, of which the linux directory is /data Now, lets suppose the samba/windows clients aren't the only people who put stuff in that directory, say I have a script that does backups or that downloads new versions of certain often used programs, that also goes there. Now I want everything in that directory to have permissions 444, regardless of who created and thus owns it. How do I do that on a per-directory basis, below samba? thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com