[Dovecot] Socket permission 432/384 and dovecot.conf

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Seba wrote:

> Sorry for that question but:
>
> when you set in dovecot.conf this for example:
>    mode = 0660

> and you run "dovecot -n" you'll see
>
>  mode: 432
>
> I'm wondering about the mode "432" - how is this value calculated?

432 is the decimal representation (radix 10), 0660 is the octal one (radix 
8).

It's good old C-style of writing numbers, that 0 prefixes octal, 0x 
hexadecimal numbers.

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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