Its funny! I had asked someone else and they said that the permissions in the 'mkdir' command were the umask, not what you wanted them to be set to, but now, seeing how it has worked, it makes perfect sense.

**a little later** Ok, I tried what was suggested and made the permissions in the mkdir commands 0775 to reflect the permissions I want and we have different results. The directories in the archive directory were created, but the permissions are not correct. The directory /home/jlk/tmp/data/stuff/archive/testing has permissions of 744 instead of 775. I am stumped as to what happened there. The directories inside of the testing directory were created and with the same permissions, 744, instead of 755. The log files were also created, but with permissions of 644 instead of 666. Am I doing something wrong with permissions?

Regards,
jlk

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