Hi. Each permission needs one bit. Remember binary.
Kenny
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:01:43PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 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 at kc5eiv.ddts.net>
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> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:32 PM
> Subject: debian /var/lock permissions
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>
> > 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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