"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>drwxr-sr-x 2 alias qmail 1024 May 19 15:16 alias/
>here is what I have and instcheck does not complain
>
>So, what on earth is the "s"?
>
>I've never seen that permission before. I have documentation for the
>permission defintions for 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and they are all combinations
>of -rwx. What value could s have in an octal system if all the other values
>are already mapped?
>
>Very confused.
This isn't really a qmail question. "man chmod" should explain it. "s"
in the group execute position means the setgid (and group execute) bit
is set. In the case of a directory, it means files created in the
directory will belong the the group that owns the directory, "qmail",
in this case.
-Dave
