On Tuesday 06 November 2007 20:48:40 James D. Parra wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Out of curiosity, what is the S for in, -rwxr-Sr-t? Is that a sticky bit
> and id so, how is it set with chmod?

No, it's not the sticky bit, the sticky bit is the t at the end. The S is the 
sgid bit, and you can set it with "chmod g+s <filename>"

Incidentally, the fact that it's a capital S means that there isn't an x 
behind it. If you were to do "chmod g+x <filename>" it would become a small s

Anders

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