On Monday 05 January 2004 9:39 pm, Peter Kiem wrote: > > Anyone know what a "sticky bit" is actually used for? Anything? > > If you look at the permissions on /tmp you will see it is drwxrwxrwt - the > t on the end is a sticky bit. Right! There it is! I was trying to set it and expecting to see that 't' but could not make it happen to a file. So is it possible for me to set a sticky bit (as root)? I couldn't make it happen. (Don't worry, this is just a home machine and I'm just playing. There is nothing of value on the system yet. I may completely reinstall once I get the hang of things.)
