Re: File attribute 's' ??
On Saturday 17 November 2001 20:56, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> 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.
yes, it's a socket. my mistake.
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