[off-topic] Where does umask get set at system startup? Mine seems to have changed to 0002 recently

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 at 11:44, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>
> On 24/04/2021 10:14, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 10:42:27 +0200, Tom H wrote:
> >> Most Linux systems are multi-user systems. There may be 10s of
> >> thousands of users with single-user systems on the various
> >> distribution mailing lists, but there are 10s (if not 100s) of
> >> millions of multi-user systems in corporations and organisations
> >> across the world.
> >
> > Are you sure?
>
> No-one knows.
>
> > Counter-thesis: The thousands of millions of multi-user
> > servers run a BSD and desktop clients access the multi-user BSD servers
> > by single-user Linux machines, as well as Windows and Apple machines.
>
> More likely the back-end Linux servers are access by single-user Windows
> and some Macs, with very few single-user Linux systems.
>
> > Or an even darker counter-thesis: Windows multi-user systems and
> > servers rule the world, while Apple, BSD and Linux is mostly used for
> > single-user desktop machines, smart phones, tablets etc. ...
>
> There are certainly more Linux *web* servers than Windows web servers (
> several surveys have pointed this out year after year). But the number
> of Windows SQLServer back-ends is also very large IMNSHO.
>
> > Are there any valid statistics available?
>
> No. It's all guesswork and expert judgment.

There are also all the RPis, most of which are Linux and single user,
not to mention all the linux routers and industrial devices.  It all
depends what you mean by a Linux System.  Any figures are pretty
meaningless without more context.

Colin