On Monday 19 March 2007, Todd Zullinger wrote: > linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I want to change the automatic file permissions that > > are created on new files. Where is the file that lets > > me do that? A lot of googling got my a lot of > > information but none of it answered my question. > > > > I want to have all new files set to 644 = rw-r--r-- > > You want to set umask to 0022. You can set this in > ~/.bashrc like so: > > umask 0022 > > It is set to 0002 in /etc/bashrc for normal users. Thank you! Worked as prescribed. -- If the word following begins with a vowel, the word you want is... to read the rest of this, go here http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/a.html