[solved] where is the file for setting new file permissions?

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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.

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