[17:36] <Snicers> Hey guys
[17:36] <Snicers> Anyone on?
[17:48] <FunnyLookinHat> Sure
[17:48] <FunnyLookinHat> Snicers, what's up ?
[18:15] <Snicers> Hey, trying to figure out umasks
[18:16] <Snicers> need to allow x on files using umask, but it can't seem to do that
[18:44] <FunnyLookinHat> Ah - I'm not much of an expert there I'm afriad...
[18:45] <FunnyLookinHat> Try #ubuntu-server ? They're usually pretty slick with that sort of stuff.
[22:15] <ToyKeeper> Er, the umask is the octal code for permissions which are removed from new files by default.
[22:16] <ToyKeeper> Like, if a file is saved with the default of 666 or 777 and the umask is 022, it'll end up saved with 644 or 755 instead.
[22:16] <ToyKeeper> If you wanted to completely disallow access by 'other' by default, you could use a umask of 027, so files will be saved as 640 or 750.
[22:17] <ToyKeeper> The 3 digits are user, group, and other.  They're composed of three bits each...  4=read, 2=write, 1=execute permission.