Unmask Problems - Hoary 5.01

[Bobby Sanders]

Yes, thanks.  Assume I hadn't misspelled "umask'" can anybody help?

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:14 -0800, Vram wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 12:53 -0600, Bobby Sanders wrote:
> > I want my default unmask to be 002 for all the users on my small office
> > system.  I have tried changing it in /etc/login.defs, i.e I changed the
> > line;
> > 
> > UNMASK	022
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > UNMASK	002
> > 
> > rebooted, created a new file and the permissions were still -rw-r--r--
> > 
> > What am I missing?  I know this has worked on other *nixs in the
> > past!  :(
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Bobby Sanders
> > 
> 
> 
> try umask
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> Vram