Set UMASK globally or per folder?

[gene0915]

I noticed that with Mint 18.3, the default umask value was (I believe) 0002. With 19, it's 0022.

I have a script that runs and uses youtube-dl to grab video files and tosses them into /mnt/md0/YouTube where Plex can pick them up. Problem is, when YouTube-dl runs and places the videos files in the YouTube folder, Plex refuses to see them because they come over as rwxr--r--. If I issue the following command:

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sudo chmod -R 775 /mnt/md0/YouTube/

Plex can finally "see" all the newly downloaded files imports them into the library just fine. To make the default umask 0002, should I just add

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umask=0002

to the .bashrc file in my home dir and add that line into /etc/profile?

Or, is there a way to set some sort of default umask at the directory level so that ANY FILE OR FOLDER placed in /mnt/md0/whatever, gets added as 775?

[catweazel]

To make the default umask 0002, should I just add

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umask=0002

to the .bashrc file in my home dir and add that line into /etc/profile?

You can set umask in either of those places. I wouldn't try both at all, and I would only try /etc/profile if .bashrc didn't work on its own.

This might be helpful if .bashrc doesn't get read https://askubuntu.com/questions/929439/ ... untu-17-04