How to set umask: UMASK vs UMASK_SET

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I’m a bit confused by the fact that, apparently, there are two ways to set umask:

  • UMASK_SET, as explained in the environment variables,
  • UMASK, as explained in the paragraph “Umask for running applications”.

taking as an example qbittorrent:

what’s the proper way for qbittorrent?
what’s the proper way for the LSIO standardized way of doing things?
thanks

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I think UMASK_SET has been in the container from the start then we added UMASK to our base images after the fact so either way should be good for this container.

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which of the two flags is the general one? maybe UMASK?

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what I mean is – can I happily assume that all LSIO images will honor UMASK, even though sometimes the docker-compose template mentions UMASK_SET, instead?

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You should be fine to assume that. The reason it’s there is for the applications that don’t support this natively.

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