Permissions question

[Scott Lanning]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 jtnelson at genuity.net wrote:
>I believe it's called the sticky bit and it ranges from 0-7, but I
>haven't found documentation on what each value means.  I usually use
>something like chmod 2775 foo to allow multiple users to write to a
>directory but not delete each others stuff (i.e. for a shared samba
>dir).  But not sure what effect each value really has.

'info chmod'?  If not, here's the Irix manpage:
http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning/chmod.txt

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