Re: File attribute 's' ??
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Rafe B. wrote:
> A certain text file has become un-editable
> and "invisible" to 'cat.'
>
> Doing 'ls -al' on this file reveals that it
> has attribute 's' in the permissions string,
> eg:
>
> srwxr-xr-x
according to the fine find manual that's for a socket special file,
it has nothing to do with suid-bits as an other poster suggested.
I fear that somo bozo program opened a socket with that name and
overwrote your text file.
--
groetjes, carel
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