Unmask Problems - Hoary 5.01

[Vram]

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 13:49 -0600, Bobby Sanders wrote:
> Yes, thanks.  Assume I hadn't misspelled "umask'" can anybody 



Have you checked


.bash_profile..


The setting in .bash_profile will override system wide settings.


HTH

Vram




> 
> 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
> 
>