Is there a way to perminatly change the default umask settings?
I would like to go from 0022 to 0750.

Thanks,

Wade

doesn't setting the umask of 7 on the file owner part make the file owner have no permissions on anything and are you sure you want to make file owner have no permission whatsoever?

edit: clarification

I would like for any new file or directory that I make have a default setting of 0750.
Would that not equal "-rw-r-x---".

no. umask is different than chmod. umask is used in some kind of logical operation with your default permissions when a file is created to get the final file's permissions you see if you do an "ls -al".

i myself am not sure as the only thing i know about umask is how it sets up the permissions for my windows partitions in fstab.

on my windows partitions, setting umask = 0002 yeilds a final file/directory permission
of:

rwx - rwx - r-x

umask = 00722 yeilds a file/directory permissions of:

--- - r-x - r-x

edit:
what am i saying. try this for the umask value for a final permissions of 750:

umask=0027

incase you want to read up on umask:

http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/unixcd...er/c02_224.htm

what i don't know is where you can specify setting the umask whether it's a system file or if you can set the umask when mounting your hard drive on boot up.

umask sets the umask to mask & 0777 (by the way the & is the AND operator and "mask" refers to the mask you give umask as a param)

which shell u r using
in case of bash, u should change the setting in /etc/bashrc
(i assume u r using RH distribution, i dont know about others, but there would be some bashrc file in /etc somewhere in other dist also)
in case of csh u should change the setting in /etc/csh.cshrc