On Jan 28, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Bill Tangren wrote:

> I have RHEL ES 5 (fully updated) running on a server, and I have
> found two
> files on it that have unusual file permissions:
>
> --------wx 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 2131
> /sys/module/sbs/paramaters/capacity_mode
> --------w- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 2131
> /sys/module/sbs/paramaters/update_mode
>
> Could someone tell me how to figure out what these files do, and
> why they
> have such uneven file permissions (i.e. world write, but not owner or
> group write)?
>
> --
>
> Bill Tangren
> U.S. Naval Observatory
>
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Bill,
Short of tracking down the source code, modinfo(8) man page might help.
Richard

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