debian /var/lock permissions

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Jim. I think I get it now, but what are the bit numbers for read and right? So based on the fact that I know execute is 7, chmod 777 myfile.txt would give root, user, and world read right and execute permissions on myfile.txt?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: debian /var/lock permissions


> 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>
> > > 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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