From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 16:28:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13060 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:28:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from outcast.media-net.net (outcast.media-net.net [206.52.136.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13053 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrisj@outcast.media-net.net) Received: from localhost (chrisj@localhost) by outcast.media-net.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA09436 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 18:38:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from chrisj@outcast.media-net.net) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 18:38:19 -0600 (CST) From: Chris To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: umask Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hello. i was wondering if someone could please explain the working of umask. i understand what it does and what not, just not how to work out the octal numbers to get the desired result. Thanks chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message