Thanks for the response Karel.
umask is the standard 0022 and this is a top level directory on the host machine.
I am using SL 6.8 to access the directory via nfs share.
It looks like there is no problem if the file is created with vi
But if I use Nautilus then that's when I get the issue.
So Nautilus on SL 6.8 seems to be the culprit (or is it caused by nfs?)
Cheers
Bill

-----Original message-----
> From:Karel Lang AFD <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday 6th November 2016 16:16
> To: Bill Maidment <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: ACL Problem in SL7.2
> 
> Hi Bill
> just pasted your work here to CLI and works OK on SL 6.7 and SL 7.2 here...
> It has to be something else .. umask? or inherited from directory higher up?
> Maybe strace would help to see whats happening exactly?
> 
> cheers
> 
> On 11/06/2016 03:58 AM, Bill Maidment wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am trying to set up ACL on a directory such that any new file created in the directory has permissions of 0660.
> > However, when I create a new file, the permissions are set as 0664 (see test.txt file below)
> > Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
> >
> > These are the commands I used:
> >
> > chmod -R u+rwX,g+rwXs,o-rwx /pictures
> >
> > setfacl -d -m u::rwx,g::rwx,o::--- /pictures
> >
> > getfacl /pictures
> > getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
> > # file: pictures
> > # owner: nfs01
> > # group: nfs01
> > # flags: -s-
> > user::rwx
> > group::rwx
> > other::---
> > default:user::rwx
> > default:group::rwx
> > default:other::---
> >
> > ls -latrh /pictures
> > total 4.0K
> > dr-xr-xr-x. 22 root  root  4.0K Nov  6 12:41 ..
> > drwxrws---+  2 nfs01 nfs01   21 Nov  6 13:10 Testing
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 nfs01 nfs01    0 Nov  6 13:44 test.txt
> > drwxrws---+  3 nfs01 nfs01   35 Nov  6 13:44 .
> >
> > Cheers
> > Bill Maidment
> >
> 
>