Umask on linux file

[Cedric Fontaine]

Hello,

Is there a way to create file with a CHMOD of 0777 with a Write on QM
on a linux dir. Of course, I can create my file and then execute a
chmod but I'd like a way to do it with a single write.

Thanks.

[Ashley Chapman]

Cedric,

I do just that. Include :-
execute 'SH umask 000' capturing umask

before the file create in your program.

Substitute 000 with whatever is appropriate for you.

2009/12/10 Cedric Fontaine <cfon...@spidmail.net>:

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Ashley Chapman

[eppick77]

Cedric,

We have every user have a bash_profile. In that profile we put in
umask 007. What you are going to need is some variation of that umask
number. The 007 creates read and write privileges for the group and
owner but not the "other".

You might play with that to see what umask you will need to create the
equivalent of 777.

Eugene

[Martin Phillips]

Hi Cedric,

 

Is there a way to create  file with a CHMOD of 0777 with a Write on QM on a linux dir. Of course, I can create my file and then execute a chmod but I'd like a way to do it with a single write.

 

QM has a UMASK command to set the modes for files created from within QM.

 

 

Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB
+44-(0)1604-709200

 

[eppick77]

It sounds like Cedric needs to do a umask of 000 on the qm side to
give him the same as chmod 777.

We set ours up to put umask of 007 in each user bash profile. I was
not aware of the umask command on the qm side. Interestingly, I typed
umask at tcl and it returned 007.

Eugene

On Dec 10, 4:24 pm, "Martin Phillips" <martinphill...@ladybridge.com>
wrote:

[Cedric Fontaine]

Martin Phillips wrote:
> Hi Cedric,
>
> Is there a way to create file with a CHMOD of 0777 with a Write on QM
> on a linux dir. Of course, I can create my file and then execute a chmod
> but I'd like a way to do it with a single write.
>
> QM has a UMASK command to set the modes for files created from within QM.

Does this apply to all the files created ? Including create.file ?

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Cedric Fontaine
http://www.terroirsquebec.com

[Martin Phillips]

Hi Cedric,

The UMASK command simply sets the underlying operating system umask value so
it should affect all files created from the QM session including use of
CREATE.FILE though this has another way to do this by use of its MODES
option.

Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton, NN4 6DB
+44-(0)1604-709200

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[Kevin Powick]

It's hard to tell from the responses here, but it should be clarified
that umask cannot actually grant permissions. It can only remove
(mask) permissions granted by the process setting permissions. IOW,
umask is not equivalent to chmod, which actually does CHange a file's
MODe.

A decent explanation, along with how to calculate umasks, can be found
at the following link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask

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Kevin Powick