Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!mimsy!eneevax!umd5!brl-adm!adm!eichelbe@nadc.arpa From: eichelbe@nadc.arpa Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: umask under 4.3 BSD Message-ID: <7554@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Wed, 27-May-87 19:39:26 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-adm.7554 Posted: Wed May 27 19:39:26 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 11:27:23 EDT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 10 I am running 4.3 BSD on a VAX 11/780. Does anyone know how I could change the system-wide "umask" so when I person does something like echo "stuff" > x x will have the file permission 0600 and not 0644? I have source code for the system. Thanks. Jon Eichelberger eichelbe@NADC.ARPA