On (07/11/04 18:04), Ali Alphan Bayazit wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 22:05 +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Hi > > > hello, > > > In my .bashrc and .bash_profile I have umask set at 022 however when I > > create a file, the permissions look like this: > > > > -rw-r--r-- > > > that looks correct to me, (r=4,w=2,x=1) > mask 666 using 022 = 644 My understanding is that it is mask 777 using 022 = 755
> > > instead of: > > > > -rwxr-xr-x > > > > why do you think a regular file is created with execute permission? > however, if you create a directory for example, you will see what you > are looking for. a shell script for example? What actually alerted me to this was a .sh to back-up a file to a series of backup files as an exercise. But it couldn't seem to create the files. > > > Am I being really dense or is this a bug? > > > > umask 555 creates files as --w--w--w- which looks fine. > > that means mask everything except write permission, so this is also fine Thanks Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
