Trying to figure out some umask issues

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "JK" == Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:

JK> I do believe that sets it to "whatever owner permissions the file
JK> has on the filesystem, root owner, root group, whatever group
JK> permissions it has on the filesystem" or something close to that
JK> effect.

Well, yes, but obviously (755,root,root,755) doesn't work all that
well, because then all files are executable.  (-,root,root,755) would
be OK, I guess, but of course that wouldn't have any bearing on the
problem I'm seeing.

 - J<