DOH!!!!
The manpage I have referneces .70 but nothing about a sticky bit.... oh
well, live and learn.. and learn and learn and learn!
Paul Farber
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Chris Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Paul Farber wrote:
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:40 service
> >
> > and under that
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:40 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 13 root qmail 4096 Feb 20 23:20 ..
> > drwxr-sr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:11 qmail
> > drwxr-sr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 21 01:35 qmail-smtpd
> >
> > Since the manual (man chmod) or the qmail-conf program docs didn't allude
> > to it... what is the 'sticky bit'?
>
> chmod +t the directory. (Are you sure man chmod doesn't refer to this?)
>
> From http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/svscan.html:
>
> "If a subdirectory sub is sticky, svscan starts a pair of supervise processes,
> one for sub, one for sub/log, with a pipe between them. svscan needs two free
> descriptors for each pipe."
>
> Chris
>