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NullDevice23 11-18-2005 07:13 PM
[SOLVED] Permissions with umask
 
hi,

if i type

Code:
$ umask 002
$ touch hello
$ ls -l
-rw-rw-r--  1 myname mygrp      0 Nov 19 02:16 hello
The umask is what u subtract from a octal chmod value right? Where is the "x" execute then? I set it to 0 for owner and group, they still dont have the execute permission set.

-> ?? Why

AltF4 11-18-2005 07:27 PM
because by default files are not executable - would be pretty useless to have all text files, jpg files, etc. executable :-)

you have to "chmod +x" or use a program being "clever" enough to know it creates executble files (e.g. gcc :-) to set the "x" bit.


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