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Q&A What does capital T mean in the output of 'ls -l'?

I had a nightly cronjob start throwing errors about "inappropriate permissions..." rsync: [generator] failed to set permissions on "/data2/home/redacted/alsoredacted/opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/open...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by re89j‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

Question linux coreutils ls
#2: Post edited by user avatar Quasímodo‭ · 2022-01-21T11:12:25Z (over 2 years ago)
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  • What does capital T mean in 'ls'?
  • What does capital T mean in the output of 'ls -l'?
  • I had a nightly cronjob start throwing errors about "inappropriate permissions..."
  • > rsync: [generator] failed to set permissions on "/data2/home/redacted/alsoredacted/opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml": Inappropriate file type or format (79)
  • rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1179) [sender=3.1.2]
  • looking into it I found:
  • > [myname@myserver ~]$ ll /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml
  • -rw-rw-r-T. 1 root root 735 Dec 19 22:03 /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml
  • I suspected the 'sticky bit'.
  • Googling it I found this reference:
  • `T'
  • If the restricted deletion flag or sticky bit is set but the
  • other-executable bit is not set.
  • > $ lsattr /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml
  • -------------e-- /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml
  • I thought lsattr would show it if it was set sticky but I guess not.
  • What does the capitol T mean and how do I get rid of it?
  • I had a nightly cronjob start throwing errors about "inappropriate permissions..."
  • ```
  • rsync: [generator] failed to set permissions on "/data2/home/redacted/alsoredacted/opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml": Inappropriate file type or format (79)
  • rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1179) [sender=3.1.2]
  • ```
  • Looking into it I found:
  • ```
  • [myname@myserver ~]$ ls -l /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml
  • -rw-rw-r-T. 1 root root 735 Dec 19 22:03 /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml
  • ```
  • I suspected the 'sticky bit'.
  • Googling it I found this:
  • `T'
  • If the restricted deletion flag or sticky bit is set but the
  • other-executable bit is not set.
  • I thought `lsattr` would show it if it was set sticky but I guess not:
  • ```
  • $ lsattr /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml
  • -------------e-- /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml
  • ```
  • What does the capital T mean and how do I get rid of it?
#1: Initial revision by user avatar re89j‭ · 2022-01-21T05:45:35Z (over 2 years ago)
What does capital T mean in 'ls'?
I had a nightly cronjob start throwing errors about "inappropriate permissions..."


 > rsync: [generator] failed to set permissions on "/data2/home/redacted/alsoredacted/opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml": Inappropriate file type or format (79)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1179) [sender=3.1.2]

looking into it I found:

 > [myname@myserver ~]$ ll /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml
-rw-rw-r-T. 1 root root 735 Dec 19 22:03 /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml

I suspected the 'sticky bit'. 

Googling it I found this reference:
    `T'
          If the restricted deletion flag or sticky bit is set but the
          other-executable bit is not set.


 > $ lsattr /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml
-------------e-- /opt/dell/srvadmin/var/log/openmanage/omcmdlog.xml

I thought lsattr would show it if it was set sticky but I guess not.

What does the capitol T mean and how do I get rid of it?