Bjoern Labitzke wrote:
> 
> drwxr-xr-t 2 root wheel 3584 Aug 30 22:57 /usr/local/bin
> 
> As far as I understood the sticky bit a user != root and with a group !=
> wheel should be able to create a file in that directory. I tried it with
> output-redirection, cp and ln -s, but nothing worked! What am I missing?

The sticky bit just means that you can't delete a file that's been
created.  You still need write permission to create the file in the first
place ;-)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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