[Wylug-help] Permissions (Was: Procmail problem - resolved)

[Stephen Patterson]

On 22 Nov 05, Smylers (Smylers at stripey.com) wrote:
> ... whether that "644" is a clue.  I don't remember ever really
> suffering from problems with permissions.  Equally, I've never
> completely got my head round the binary/octal arithmetic necessary for
> setting permissions like 644.

Ah yes, procmail tends to barf if anyone else can write to the procmailrc file,
though it logs the error (suspicious rcfile) out of the way in your mailserver
logs (if anywhere). 

For the 644 permissions etc, we have a matrix like this:

4 2 1
r w x

for the user/group/all. So, mode 6 = rw, etc.

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