From: paul@... (paul vudmaska)
Date: 2004-05-18T14:48:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.mkdir

Mark Hubbart <discord@mac.com> wrote in message news:<1DE91023-A86D-11D8-AE47-000502FDD5CC@mac.com>...
> On May 17, 2004, at 6:38 PM, paul vudmaska wrote:
> 
> > I'm attempting to make a script that creates directories on a bsd
> > server.
> >
> > #needs write privs to the server(for uploading from web)
> > /upload
> > #just write to owner
> > /htm
> >
> > For the first, i'm using
> > owner - all privs = 07
> > group - read,write = 6
> > other - read = 4
> >
> > Dir.mkdir('upload', 0764)
> > Which, when looking at with ls -al
> > shows
> > drwxr--r--
> > all privs to owner, read to group and nothing to other
> >
> > This seems to work ok for files, just not dirs.
> >
> > What mask do i need to allow the server to write to dirs??
> 
> Is your umask causing the problem? I know mine is set by default to 
> 0022, so it would mask off the group/world write bits.
> 
> "%04o" % File.umask
>      ==>"0022"
> File.umask 0
>      ==>18
> "%04o" % File.umask
>      ==>"0000"
> 
> HTH,
> --Mark


Mucho, mucho, thanks Mark, using File.umask 0 worked. Now i need to figure out why.

:P, thanks again.