[Xastir] D700 Connection

Keith Kaiser keith.kaiser at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 16:45:42 EDT 2008


Here is my last build of Xastir, maybe something will leap out at you  
guys.

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On Apr 9, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote:
>
>> This is a weird one guys.
>>
>> I did ls -lad /dev/lock the result is;
>> drwxr-xr-t  2 root  wheel  68 Apr  9 21:25 /var/lock
>>
>> Which is a little different than  yours, I have a - where you have  
>> an x in the
>> 6th position. What does that mean?
>
> Separate it out like this:
>
>    d  rwx  r-x   r-t
>
> The first means it's a directory.  The other three groups are the
> read/write/execute permissions for each of three groups:
>
>    Owner  rwx
>    Group  r-x
>    Other  r-t (or r-x)
>
> Here's where it gets a bit strange:  In the case of a directory the
> 'x' means you can change into the directory, it doesn't mean execute
> permission like it does on a file.
>
> Another weirdness:  Other flags sometimes appear in the 'x'
> position, like 't', 'g', etc.  The 't' is a "sticky" flag.  On my
> system it appears as a 'T' if the 'x' flag is not set, and a 't' is
> the 'x' flag _is_ set.  Hard to keep track of isn't it?
>
> You're probably good here with either a 't' or an 'x' in that last
> position for this case.
>
> -- 
> Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo dot com
> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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