Help with links please

[Jamie McColl]

I have some links on my server which have the permissions :-
lr-xr-xr-xT

What does the 'T' mean and when I go to recreate these links, how do I create the 'T'?

[Dan Am]

these are most probably so called
transition links. that is, they are installed for backward compatibility to HPUX 9.x

three commands with man-pages:

tlinstall
tllist
tlremove

you can manually set the T with chmod
( sticky bit), but that should not be neccesary.

[Andreas Voss]

Jus a note:
if you chmod to a symlink you change the file what sysmlink goes through not the symlink itself.

[Alan Riggs]

Are you certain the permission string you posted is correct? I have not seen a T in that posiiton. IF, however, the string is:

lr_xr_xr_T

Then you have a sticky bit set with execute/search directry permission denied to others.

[Dale McNamara]

the reason you may have this setting could be from a umask setting when the link was created.

The "T" in this position usually is associated with executable files. The sticky bit in this case would lock that executable in memory, speeding up calls to it. (prevents the system from abandoning the swap-space image)

To set this permission on a file, you would chmod 1444

check out the man page for chmod(2) for more info.