that got it, thank you!
Wandered Inn wrote:
>
> jonathan wrote:
> >
> > guess I should have given an example. I have a cron job that backups a
> > data directory and the tar file has the following permissions
> > -rw-r--r-- and I would like to drop the 'other' read. I could just
> > issue a chmod, but I would have to do this for every cron job, I just
> > figured I could change the umask and that would take care of all.
>
> In your cron entry just add 'umask NNN' before your script executes:
>
> * * * * * umask '777'; backup_script_here
>
> >
> > Wandered Inn wrote:
> > >
> > > jonathan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I want to make my home systems so that all files created have no rwx for
> > > > the "other" group. I have found umask options in a couple of places.
> > > > Where all do I need to make this change? My wife and I are in a
> > > > specific group, so I don't want "other" to have any permissions. I have
> > > > a cable modem and am a little paranoid. I am using SuSE6.4. TIA
> > >
> > > Based on previous UNIX implementations, you could put a call to umask in
> > > the /etc/profile script to force these settings on login. I'm not sure
> > > that Linux always follows suite here, but my current experiences
> > > indicate it does.
> > >
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