I have a question related to granting permissions.

I have created a directory tree, 3 levels and have GRANTED the required permissions
to each directory. However when I create a file in them, the file does not inherit the permissons
and I am having to manually set them for each new file which is time consuming.

I an using 'chmod' to set the permissions.

How can I set the permissions for the FIRST parent directory and have all lower level
directories and files (existing and any new files, directories) have the same permissions ?

Is this even possible ? I have reviewed the chmod -R option but I'm not SURE if indicating
recursive is what I should be using....use "chmod -R 777 parentDirName"Thanks for your reply.. I ran the cmd per your instructions and all child directoires / files did have the permissions
applied to them. However, I created a new file in one of the directories and it still did not ASSUME the same permissions as the parent directory...I had to rerun the cmd to set the permissions.Quote from: BRIANH on JULY 13, 2010, 03:08:19 PM

.... I created a new file in one of the directories and it still did not assume the same permissions as the parent directory...I had to rerun the cmd to set the permissions.