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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.=20
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From: William Hubbs <kc5eiv@kc5eiv.ddts.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:32 PM
Subject: debian /var/lock permissions


> Cheryl,
>=20
> I am running debian 3.0 (woody), and I just checked the permissions on
> /var/lock here:
>=20
> drwxrwxrwt    3 root     root         1024 Mar 14 11:56 /var/lock
>=20
> To get that permission, type, as root,
>=20
> chmod 1777 /var/lock
>=20
> William
>=20
>=20
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