Hi Andreas, I try the following command and the test/content directory is still in 755 mode. $ cp -a -dpR content/ test/ $ ls -l test/ drwxr-sr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 23 19:28 content Regards, James On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Andreas Reschke < Andreas.Reschke at behrgroup.com> wrote: > centos-bounces at centos.org wrote on 23.06.2010 13:31:56: > > > James Corteciano <james at linux-source.org> > > Gesendet von: centos-bounces at centos.org > > > > 23.06.2010 13:32 > > > > Bitte antworten an > > CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > > > > An > > > > CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > > > > Kopie > > > > Thema > > > > [CentOS] umask not functioning with cp command > > > > Hi all, > > > > $ umask 0002 > > $ mkdir test > > $ ls -ld test > > drwxrwxr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 23 19:04 test/ > > > > $ls -ld content > > drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 23 19:29 content > > > > $ cp -r content test/ > > $ls -ld test/content > > drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jun 23 19:29 content > > > > My question is, how can I make content directory permission mode to > > 775 if I do cp inside the test directory? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > James > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hi James, > in this case, you must copy with cp -p (or better -a same -dpR) to preserve > all atributes. > > man cp > > Gruß > Andreas Reschke > ________________________________________________________________ > BG-IM173 > Unix/Linux-Administration > > Behr GmbH & Co. KG > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100623/83161105/attachment-0004.html>