Randy's Stupid Question of the day
Brian Kelsay
bkelsay at askpioneer.com
Fri Sep 8 17:15:13 CDT 2000
Take a look at this page for the Octal equivalents.
http://www.clug.org/presentations/intro_to_linux/gfx030.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Rathbun [mailto:randy at rrr.2y.net]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 9:57 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: kclug - Randy's Stupid Question of the day
Okay, I give.
How in the world does umask work? I am trying to change it to
rwxr-xr-x. If it is 022, it is rw-r--r--. Okay, *that* makes total
sense... ahem.
And then setting it to 220 results in r--r--rw. And even stranger stuff
starts if I go to other numbers.
Anyone care to explain this?
Randy Rathbun
randy at rrr.2y.net
http://rrr.2y.net
Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment.
-- seen in a posting in comp.software.testing
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