debian /var/lock permissions

[jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]

Hi,
Each group represents root, user and world in that order.  Of course 
each bit represents a permission.  The permissions are in the same order 
as what you would see when you did a 'ls -l' command i.e. read, write, 
execute.
Therefore a 7 would mean read, write and execute permissions for that 
particular group.

An example would be: chmod 774 myfile.txt.
In this case root would have read, write and execute permissions.  So 
would the owner of the file.  All others would have only read 
permissions.

     Jim Wantz
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Kenny Hitt wrote:

> Hi.  Each permission needs one bit.  Remember binary.
> 
>           Kenny
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:01:43PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > 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>
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> > 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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