On Sunday 08 February 2004 15:56, Andreas Janssen wrote: > If you open a console window, the normal invocation for non-login shells > is used. If you use bash, it will read ~/.bashrc, but not > ~/.bash_profile. You should add the umask line to ~/.bashrc and tell > ~/.bash_profile to read ~/.bashrc. Thanks -- Alan Chandler alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk