Hey, all -- someone on a BBS I'm on asked about how to set default
permissions on files, and I immediately thought of "umask"... which
appeared to not be installed on my Debian box. So I plugged it into
Debian's search page, and got essentially nothing. Is "umask" n
$ /bin/bash
$ type umask
umask is a shell builtin
Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
Hey, all -- someone on a BBS I'm on asked about how to set default
permissions on files, and I immediately thought of "umask"... which
appeared to not be installed on my Debian box. So I plugged it
I've got a debian system here and most definitely have the umask command, but
it's not a binary or a package or anything like that. It's a BASH builtin,
so you won't see it anywhere in a package.
Anyway, in answer to the question you were trying to answer on the BBS,
def
On Tuesday, Apr 4th 2006 at 12:09 -0400, quoth Ken D'Ambrosio:
=>Hey, all -- someone on a BBS I'm on asked about how to set default
=>permissions on files, and I immediately thought of "umask"... which
=>appeared to not be installed on my Debian box. So I plugged i
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:43:37 -0400, Neil Schelly wrote:
> I've got a debian system here and most definitely have the umask
> command, but it's not a binary or a package or anything like that.
> It's a BASH builtin, so you won't see it anywhere in a package.
>
>
