[X-Unix] Problem with old umask setting

[John Baltutis]

On 07/27/05, ~flipper <lord.flipper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After hours, on and off, troubleshooting a failure on the part of a
>daemon in StartupItems to maintain its 'state' across rebbots, the
>situation was 'fixed' by resetting the permission on the particular item's
>folder in /Library/StartupItems.
>
> During that investigation, i ran a simple umask command in Terminal, and
>the console returned with:
>
> % 7
>
> That's a bad thing. back in Jaguar I had my own default umak set for 770.
>But when I checked the .tcshrc file in my Tiger setup here, there is
>absolutely no umask setting listed at all. The same goes for .login, and
>the rc file in /etc.
>
> I am stumped. Somewhere i have a setting that is forcing the return of
>that '7' in the console. Anybody have an idea?

AFAIK, the command is umask, not unmask. See
<http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/umask.1.asp> for details.

Also, see <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86135> to reset
default shell.