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Am I mistaken on that naming convention?

--Jerald 

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Drag0n wrote:
&gt; Sticky
&gt;    When  the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that directory may
&gt;       be unlinked or renamed only by root or their owner.  Without the 
&gt; sticky
&gt;       bit,  anyone able to write to the directory can delete or rename 
&gt; files.
&gt;       The sticky bit is commonly found on directories, such as /tmp, 
&gt; that are
&gt;       world-writable.
&gt; 
&gt; Directly from
&gt; man chmod

Might check that again, sticky bit is 't' as is likely seen on your /tmp

Sticky bit is a perm indicator whereas the first character of the perms is
file type.  's' would be a socket

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