[KLUG Members] A [simple?] question

Robert G. Brown members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 24 May 2004 09:47:18 -0400


On Mon, 24 May 2004 08:56:48 -0400, Bruce Smith wrote:

>[Replying to slightly old thread.]
>
>> On UNIX systems generally, what determines the permission settings for 
>> a file that is newly created by a program?
>I just ran across this article linked on a news site that explains the
>default premissions extremely well:
>http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/umask_permissions.html?biga=15

This is a good article on the topic, and I reccomend it to anyone who is 
interested in this. It conforms a lot of what I beleive (which naturally 
makes it better!:). 

I will be following up on this during this week, and will report back when 
I know the response of the vendor.
							Regards,
							---> RGB <---