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I just noticed this problem on a Solaris 9 system of mine. chmod seems to be
working errantly, adding the sticky bit and etc...

# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 17 root other 512 Nov 14 07:40 apache2
drwxr-sr-x 3 root root 512 Nov 14 07:40 backups


# chmod 0755 backups
# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 17 root other 512 Nov 14 07:40 apache2
drwxr-sr-x 3 root root 512 Nov 14 07:40 backups

# chmod 700 backups
# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 17 root other 512 Nov 14 07:40 apache2
drwx--S--- 3 root root 512 Nov 14 07:40 backups

# mkdir backups.save
# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 17 root other 512 Nov 14 07:40 apache2
drwx--S--- 3 root root 512 Nov 14 07:40 backups
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 512 Nov 14 07:43 backups.save


My umask is 022. I am explicitly calling /usr/bin/chmod and chmod has the
following attributes:

#ldd /usr/bin/chmod
libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1
libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1
/usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/lib/libc_psr.so.1

# ls -l /usr/bin/chmod
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 18500 Apr 6 2002 /usr/bin/chmod

#file chmod
chmod: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped

Anyone have any ideas what my problem is?

Thx,
CC

In article <3fb4f9ad_2@127.0.0.1>, Rhugga <ccarson@echeeba.com> wrote:
>I just noticed this problem on a Solaris 9 system of mine. chmod seems to be
>working errantly, adding the sticky bit and etc...

Not the sticky bit, the set-gid bit.

It's not adding it. It was already there, and it didn't remove it. Just
like it says in the man page:

It may be
cleared only by using symbolic
mode.

So try: chmod g-s backups

># mkdir backups.save
># ls -l
>drwxr-xr-x 17 root other 512 Nov 14 07:40 apache2
>drwx--S--- 3 root root 512 Nov 14 07:40 backups
>drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 512 Nov 14 07:43 backups.save

When you create a new directory, if the parent directory has set-gid set,
it's automatically copied to the new directory.

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