Re: default file permissions

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

* Antiphon [Mon, 10 May 2004 20:23:02 -0400]:

> > > rw-rw---- would be 660

> > So setting my umask to 006 would lead to let new files be 660, right?

> That should do the trick

  sorry but nope. UMASK=006 would yield permissions rwxrwx--x (771). you
  need a little binary arithmetic to understand umasks. google should
  provide pages with detailed explanations of this.

  cu

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