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From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@yahoo.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: debian /var/lock permissions
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:01:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <019401c1d1dc$63f38ac0$01213e18@mycomputer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020322183238.GA1291@kc5eiv.ddts.net>

Hi William. I've never gotten the logic behind the numbering systems to set file permissions. Like how do you get from something like chmod +x /home/file.txt to chmod 755 /home/file.txt. I'm just curious as to whether someone has figured out the logic behind this. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: William Hubbs <kc5eiv@kc5eiv.ddts.net>
To: Speakup Mailing List <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:32 PM
Subject: debian /var/lock permissions


> Cheryl,
> 
> I am running debian 3.0 (woody), and I just checked the permissions on
> /var/lock here:
> 
> drwxrwxrwt    3 root     root         1024 Mar 14 11:56 /var/lock
> 
> To get that permission, type, as root,
> 
> chmod 1777 /var/lock
> 
> William
> 
> 
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 William Hubbs
 ` Igor Gueths [this message]
   ` Kenny Hitt
     ` jwantz
       ` Igor Gueths
         ` Cheryl Homiak
           ` jwantz
         ` jwantz
   ` Cheryl Homiak

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