umask setting

Shell Programming and Scripting
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dear all,

i'm trying to set the default permission using umask commnd. i'm using bash shell and the permission of the .bash_profile file is

-rwxr-x--- 1 tdmscrdr dba 370 Nov 7 12:21 .bash_profile

but still i'm not able to change the default permissiom.
in the .bash_profile file i defined umask 007.
but its not working.
can any body help plz? how can i change the default permission

regards,
pankaj

2

(a) what exactly are you doing?

(b) how are you determining it's not working?

(c) what does

ls -ld $HOME

say?

(d) what does

uname -a

say?

(e) what does

uname

say?