Alexandre Farcy wrote
> Christopher Lindsey wrote:
> >
> > > how can i have my files set to -rwxr-xr-x (755) ?
> >
> > When I was using the XBitHack feature of Apache with SSI I
> > ended up post-processing the directory that the archives were
> > written to; something like:
> >
> > (cd $rcDir ; $mhonarc -umask 022 -rcfile rc -outdir $archiveDir; \
> > find $archiveDir -type f -exec chmod a+x {} \;)
>
> well that is exactly what i do now, but i don't understand why UMASK
> ignores the exec bit... what is the reason for this ? or is it a bug ?
...
> well i do "chmod 755 *.html" only from my .procmailrc.
...
> Alexandre
> --
umask doesn't ignore the exec bit. The permissions on a new file are
set to (creationmode & ~umask) so if the exec bit is 0 in the
creation-mode setting, it will be 0 in the result.
From man page, "umask 022 removes write permission for group and other
[so] files normally created with mode 777 become mode 755; files
created with mode 666 become mode 644."
- J Waldby
