Greetings: my apache daemon runs as user "www-data". i need to have this users umask be 002 (it's currently 022)... meaning, for each of the 25 processes that apache forks off when it begins to run, the umask for these processes must be 002. i thought i could just update the users .bashrc file to set this, but then i found out that the users shell, in /etc/passwd, is "sh", which is just a sym link to bash ... which means that none of the following scripts execute when a process is forked using the "www-data" user: ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_login ~/.bash_profile /etc/bash.baschrc so then i thought i could just put a ".shrc", ".login", or a ".profile" into ~ for the user and set the new umask that way ... this doesn't work either - presumably because the shell that the apache processes run as aren't interactive. so, now i'm not sure what to do. how can i set the umask for the apache processes that run as user "www-data"? thanks for any/all info. --toml --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx