[oclug] umask

Dave Edwards amoamasam at sympatico.ca
Wed Feb 21 15:07:36 EST 2001


On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, you Francis Pinteric wrote:

>    Try putting a 'umask=007' in your ~/.bash_profile file or your
>    ~/.bash_login file or ~/.profile file if it is your login shell,
>    otherwise for subsiduary shells it uses ~/.bashrc
>    
>    Also, if your shell is invoked as sh, then it uses ~/.profile instead
>    of any of the other startup files.
>    
>    Hope that helps.

Thanks, Francis, I expect it will.  ~/.bash_profile didn't occur to me for
some reason.  Thanks plenty,

Dave.



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