Hi,

I'd like to know how I can set a default CHMod for folders and a default CHMod for files. In a specific web directory on my server I want the CHMod for dirs to be 0755 and for file 0644. It does this on my web host, but I can't figure out how to do it on my home server!

Thanks!
-M

Look into 'umask'. I think you want 'umask 022'.

Thanks Matir! It fixed folders, but not files. Now folders are 755 by default but files are 600 (I don't think that's changed). Any ideas?

-M

Files should be 644 with 022... tested it on my box, even.

Not so on my PC

I just did a couple things and it's doing the same thing. I typed "umask -p" which is supposed to return the current umask and it says 0022.

I'm stumped! This isn't very easy.
-M

Ideas anyone?

-M

I still need an answer.

Maybe I should start a new thread about this. People probably aren't answering because there are so many posts and they're figuring that the problem is solved.

Please try the following script in an empty directory (for easy cleanup afterwards):

Ok, thanks, I did this. Now what? Am I supposed to paste what it did back? (after umask it said 0022).

Yes, sorry, I should've been more specific. Please paste the output.

I'm not aware of any reason it should not have 644 permissions.

Not in my case. I didn't respond because in the decades and decades I've been using *nix systems, never once have I seen it do what you're describing. A umask of 022 always gives me new directories of 755 and new files of 644. So I don't know what to tell you.

Also, could I ask why the unusual capitalization of "chmod"? You're typing "CHMod". I've never seen it typed that way. I didn't recognize what your post was about by the subject line alone. I had to read the word in context to see what you were talking about.

I've definitely seen different pronunciations though. I personally pronounce "chmod" as "change mode". But I once knew a guy who always said "sha-MOD" (which sounds like some French word to my ears).

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Sep 1 18:53 tempdir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Sep 1 18:53 tempfile
/home/site31-x # umask
0022

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Ok so this appears to be working. However, whenever my FTP program uploads a new file it's set to -rw-------. I can't see how this can be a problem of my FTP client because on another server everything is fne and it uploads as 0664. Strange, any ideas?

haertig: Yes, interesting observation! I really don't know why I spell it that way. I probably saw it spelled like that once and just started doing it that why myself. And I pronounce it "key-mod"

I would suspect some setting on your FTP server, not the client. But I don't run FTP so I don't know what setting it might be.

That's the first time you mentioned ftp ... you may want to read up
on your ftp-daemons set-up ;}


Cheers,
Tink

No wait guys, sorry, it's not just FTP.

I just used File Browser (Nautilus) on the same directory and did Right Click > Create Document > Empty File and the permissions on this were 600. Now when I type "touch file" as the same user in the same folder, the permissions are 0644. I tried restarting Nautilus just in case it cached the permissions, but it still did this.

Wow, weird. Should I try restarting the computer? Shouldn't need to... it's linux!!!

Edit for additional info: If I create a new file in gedit, it has the correct permissions: 0644. It's just creating a new file in Nautilus and in FTP that's the problem.