Umask?

[Neil Schelly]

I've got a debian system here and most definitely have the umask command, but 
it's not a binary or a package or anything like that.  It's a BASH builtin, 
so you won't see it anywhere in a package.

Anyway, in answer to the question you were trying to answer on the BBS, 
default permissions are kinda decided by the process doing the writing.  Lots 
of daemons have options for default umasks, bash does with the umask command, 
etc.  That is the general term for how to specify default permissions, but it 
doesn't imply a specific global means of setting it.
-N

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 12:09 pm, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Hey, all -- someone on a BBS I'm on asked about how to set default
> permissions on files, and I immediately thought of "umask"... which
> appeared to not be installed on my Debian box.  So I plugged it into
> Debian's search page, and got essentially nothing.  Is "umask" not used in
> Linux?  Has it been deprecated?  If so, what was it replaced with?  Etc.,
> etc., etc...
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ken
>
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