On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote: > This is a weird one guys. > > I did ls -lad /dev/lock the result is; > drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 68 Apr 9 21:25 /var/lock > > Which is a little different than yours, I have a - where you have an x in the > 6th position. What does that mean?
Separate it out like this: d rwx r-x r-t The first means it's a directory. The other three groups are the read/write/execute permissions for each of three groups: Owner rwx Group r-x Other r-t (or r-x) Here's where it gets a bit strange: In the case of a directory the 'x' means you can change into the directory, it doesn't mean execute permission like it does on a file. Another weirdness: Other flags sometimes appear in the 'x' position, like 't', 'g', etc. The 't' is a "sticky" flag. On my system it appears as a 'T' if the 'x' flag is not set, and a 't' is the 'x' flag _is_ set. Hard to keep track of isn't it? You're probably good here with either a 't' or an 'x' in that last position for this case. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir