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Go half way down the page and look for this heading chmod = change permissions on a file Regards Emmett [email protected] Sent by: [email protected] 09/25/2012 05:14 PM Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected] cc Subject umask curiosity I notice on SLES10 that the umask command displays umask as 4 digits. Yet in /etc/profile I see a 3 digit value. Customers code 3 digit values in their .profile files. Coding umask 077 or umask 0077 seems to produce the same results. Is there any meaning to the fourth (really first) digit displayed by the umask command? Annie Smith ************************************************************ This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this communication and destroy all copies. ************************************************************ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ If you are not the intended addressee, please inform us immediately that you have received this e-mail in error, and delete it. We thank you for your cooperation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
