Re: umask setting in /etc/profile not working

[zep <zgreenfelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

>On another related question... the user is also complaining about ownership
>of files and directories. Couldn't I just solve that problem with a sticky
>bit, i.e. chmod -R u+s * and chmod -R g+s *?

possibly; although you can also screw things up pretty well if
the user has done something like.. mkdir x; cd x ; ln -sf /etc ./et_cetera_config_files

>
>And as mentioned I have only one umask set in /etc/profile
>
>[root@qa_hostapps]# grep umask /etc/profile
>umask 0002
>


but /etc/profile isn't the only thing that bash calls/uses (at least not by default)


what do you get if you do a 'egrep umask /etc/*' ?
and in the home dir, what do you get from egrep umask .??* ?

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