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#1 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008, 06:09 PM

Can someone please tell me why I can't set the sticky
bit symbolically ? Please seee below.
Thanks,
Carl

ls -ld OpC
drwxrwsrwx 2 root bin 512 Mar 20 22:04 OpC

chmod o+t OpC

ls -ld OpC

drwxrwsrwx 2 root bin 512 Mar 20 22:04 OpC

#2 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008, 06:09 PM

cnurbw@yahoo.com wrote:
> Can someone please tell me why I can't set the sticky
> bit symbolically ? Please seee below.

> chmod o+t OpC

Drop the 'o'

chmod +t OpC

#3 (**permalink**) 05-13-2008, 06:09 PM

On May 12, 9:32 pm, cnu...@yahoo.com wrote:

> ls -ld OpC
> drwxrwsrwx 2 root bin 512 Mar 20 22:04 OpC
>
> chmod o+t OpC
>

It's not o+t, it's +t. The sticky bit happens to show up in ls where
the "o" permission bits normally live, but that's just an artifact of
ls wanting to produce a fixed-width output - it has nothing to do with
permissions for other.

--tim

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