chmod Correct Syntax to add sticky bit "t" to root of drive

[Quad5Ny]

Recently the root of my boot drive had its owner changed to "staff" causing my system boot times to be around 2 min long instead of 30 seconds.

I fixed that by going into Terminal and typing "sudo chown root:admin /". Everything is back to normal, except the permissions on the root are now drwxrwxr-x instead of drwxrwxr-t.
("Can’t create kext cache under / - owner not root" - was the warning incase someone comes across this and wants to know how to fix it.)


I'm just wondering what the proper chmod syntax is to change the execute/search bit back to the sticky bit, As I'm afraid to type something wrong. =)

And what would be the proper way to clear out all my log files?(Clear, not delete).


-Thanks, Quad

P.S. Im on 10.6.2

 

[huntercr]

Recently the root of my boot drive had its owner changed to "staff" causing my system boot times to be around 2 min long instead of 30 seconds.

I fixed that by going into Terminal and typing "sudo chown root:admin /". Everything is back to normal, except the permissions on the root are now drwxrwxr-x instead of drwxrwxr-t.
("Can’t create kext cache under / - owner not root" - was the warning incase someone comes across this and wants to know how to fix it.)


I'm just wondering what the proper chmod syntax is to change the execute/search bit back to the sticky bit, As I'm afraid to type something wrong. =)

And what would be the proper way to clear out all my log files?(Clear, not delete).


-Thanks, Quad

P.S. Im on 10.6.2

chmod +t directoryname

 

[Quad5Ny]

Lol thanks, I got a little nervous reading all the options for chmod. - http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/chmod.1.html

 

[huntercr]

Lol thanks, I got a little nervous reading all the options for chmod. - http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/chmod.1.html

no problem!
As for clearing your logfiles, do you mean /var/log/* ?

They autorotate.... only the logs with no .gz or .bz2 are currently in use. You can delete the others if you want ( but I woudn't bother since they rotate )

 

[Quad5Ny]

no problem!
As for clearing your logfiles, do you mean /var/log/* ?

I have my main boot drive offline to make a backup with SuperDuper and was thinking about clearing all my logs before the backup just so everything is nice and clean if I ever restore the backup.

There are 3 main log folders that I know of:
/private/Var/Log/
/Library/Logs/
/Users/UserNameHere/Library/Logs/

Since the drive is offline I can clear them using "> LogNameHere.log" in Terminal.

But I don't know if that will cause any problems when I boot back up.


EDIT: Nevermind, I'll just leave them. But thanks again for responding before.