Permissions, Permissions, Permissions

[Bobby Sanders]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 21:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 13:55 -0500, Bobby Sanders wrote:
> > How can I make the programs started from the menu behave the say way
> > as
> > they do when started from the command line?  
> 
> Did you log out and log back in before running the menu command?
> Probably not. Here's why:
> 
> You set the umask in a session and it is valid for that session, so it
> works. The app run from a menu is running in a different session - it
> might be a sibling of a common grandparent session, but for these
> purposes it's different. And it's umask is still whatever it was in the
> old ~/.bash_profile
> 
> Restart gdm and log back in, it will work then.
> 
> alan

I had the same thought -- great minds and all that stuff.  However, I
set my bask umask to 0007 some time ago so the computer has been started
many times since then.  I still have the same problems.

Thanks,  Bobby