John Jetmore wrote:
>>>-rws--s--x 1 root mail 533287 Feb 27 12:32 exim-4.12-4*
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> It looks like the source of this problem was found. I waited because I
> hate it when people change the subject or ignore the important part of
> your question. So, that said, isn't the sticky bit 01000 (unset in the
> example above)? I thought it was something different than the suid bit
> (04000) and the sgid bit (02000) (which are what're set above).
Yup - very very true. I forgot to point that out to him, but I guess he
was more interested in solving his problem than on understanding the
chmod manpages :)