Around 12:03am on Wednesday, July 04, 2007 (UK time), Karl Larsen scrawled: > That is all I could learn with man chmod and it didn't define what a > sticky bit is :-) How hard did you look? From 'man chmod': "A numeric mode is from one to four octal digits (0-7), derived by adding up the bits with values 4, 2, and 1. Any omitted digits are assumed to be leading zeros. The first digit selects the set user ID (4) and set group ID (2) and sticky (1) attributes." and "When the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that directory may be unlinked or renamed only by root or their owner. Without the sticky bit, anyone able to write to the directory can delete or rename files. The sticky bit is commonly found on directories, such as /tmp, that are world-writable." Steve -- Play Champions - my free football predictions game at: http://www.stevesearle.com/champs/about.html 00:07:40 up 8 days, 3:47, 0 users, load average: 0.33, 0.19, 0.07
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