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Authored by: sharumpe on Nov 14, '02 11:25:54AM

...would be to put this in your own .cshrc or .profile (in your home directory). Editing rc.common will change the umask for all users on the system, whereas putting it in your own config file (.cshrc or .profile) will change it only for you, which is usually better.

Of course, if you're the only user on the system, it's six for one, half dozen for the other.

Mr. Sharumpe



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Authored by: mervTormel on Nov 14, '02 12:03:00PM

umask in the shell startup scriptage only affects files created in the shell, not cocoa or carbon apps.



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Authored by: stuartbryson on Nov 14, '02 06:11:39PM

Correct! This is what I was having issues with. If my umask was set in the .cshrc file and I opened an application from the terminal it would work fine, but I needed it to work when opening applications from the finder (or window manager :))

Stuart



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