Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Sean O Sullivan wrote:
>>> lo,
>>>> Need files and directories to be created with permissions '775'.
>> umask should then be set to '002', however, apparently when set umask
>> it is set, it will dictate that directories will be created as '775',
>> however files as '644' (with a umask of 002).
>>> What is creating the file?
Apache
>> Likely whatever created the file specified 0644. A umask is
> subtractive, it can only 'remove' permission bits - not add them, so
> if a file is created by an application with permission bits /not/ set,
> there is no way a umask can 'add' them.
>> See 'man -s 2 chmod'.
>>> (not actually using umask command, will be using mod_umask for
>> apache, so unsure how successful passing switches would be ...).
>>> Likely you want to be looking for some kind of 'default permissions
> for files' type parameter, not system umask per se.
Yes, sadly that does not seemingly exist (that I know of...), and I
think umask (or in this case mod_umask for apache) is the only way of
doing it (however files /must/ have 775).
Doing a chmod of all files takes ... 5+ mins & produces 60+megs of audit
logs (lots of files...).
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