[cobalt-developers] file permissions

[cLive hoLLoway <cLive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi all

i seem to have got myself a little stuck here.

I have a directory with permissions:

drwxrwsr-x

I don't remember seeing the 's' before?
what does the 's' mean?
how could it have got there?
how do I change it to an 'x'?
what would changing it to an 'x' do?
what's the safest way to analyse this further?

I wrote an install script a few weeks ago and it worked fine. Recently,
I've noticed that directories in the /home/sites directory have these
permissions and that the setup script cannot copy files to a directory it
creates under a directory with these permissions.

is this anything to do with cgi-wrap?

any thoughts anyone?

thanks

cLive ;-)
perplexed 

cLive hoLLoway
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