debian /var/lock permissions

[Igor Gueths]

Hi William. I've never gotten the logic behind the numbering systems to set file permissions. Like how do you get from something like chmod +x /home/file.txt to chmod 755 /home/file.txt. I'm just curious as to whether someone has figured out the logic behind this. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: William Hubbs <kc5eiv at kc5eiv.ddts.net>
To: Speakup Mailing List <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:32 PM
Subject: debian /var/lock permissions


> Cheryl,
> 
> I am running debian 3.0 (woody), and I just checked the permissions on
> /var/lock here:
> 
> drwxrwxrwt    3 root     root         1024 Mar 14 11:56 /var/lock
> 
> To get that permission, type, as root,
> 
> chmod 1777 /var/lock
> 
> William
> 
> 
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