Apache umask 002 not changing permissions

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Published on 2010-05-19T01:29:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 1:31 UTC
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I have used

[root ~]$ echo "umask 002" >> /etc/sysconfig/httpd
[root ~]$ service httpd restart

restarted apache many times but whenever i install something from script the directories are still not group writable.

What should i do

I have checked the file the umask 002 is at the end of file

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