Re: File attribute 's' ??

2001-11-17 Thread ben
On Saturday 17 November 2001 20:56, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote: > > A certain text file has become un-editable > > and "invisible" to 'cat.' > > > > Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it > > has attribute 's' in the permissions string, > >

Re: File attribute 's' ??

2001-11-17 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote: > A certain text file has become un-editable > and "invisible" to 'cat.' > > Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it > has attribute 's' in the permissions string, > eg: > > srwxr-xr-x according to the fine find manual that's for a

Re: File attribute 's' ??

2001-11-17 Thread ben
it's a link. do 'ls -al filename' and it should point to the original. On Saturday 17 November 2001 20:49, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > From `man chmod` (text may be different, I'm on my OS X laptop atm): > > --- > The perm symbols represent the portions of the mode bits as follows: > [...] > s

Re: File attribute 's' ??

2001-11-17 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
>From `man chmod` (text may be different, I'm on my OS X laptop atm): --- The perm symbols represent the portions of the mode bits as follows: [...] s The set-user-ID-on-execution and set-group-ID-on-execution bits. --- What you have found is a set UID executable file (possibly a script or

File attribute 's' ??

2001-11-17 Thread Rafe B.
A certain text file has become un-editable and "invisible" to 'cat.' Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it has attribute 's' in the permissions string, eg: srwxr-xr-x The 's' is in the position that you'd normally find a 'd' or a hyphen. None of my manuals talk about this particular