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Alright, heres what I get in the log file 
Problem with code: Error open(PAS, '>hf'), 13 Permission denied, 13 Pe
+rmission denied, EACCES

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So it does look like a permission issue, Is there a way to resolve this? Preferably a way that doesn't require my user to do anything (all done with beautiful perl)?

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Re^3: CGI script cannot create file.
by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Dec 18, 2012 at 10:34 UTC
    Well, you could run the following at the command prompt as your user, it does use Perl after all ;) 
    perl -e ' $apache = qx(ps -ef | grep httpd); @fields=split /\s+/, $apa
+che; 
exec ("chown $fields[0] /path/to/flat/file/directory");'

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    However setting up a directory with write permission for the uid of the web service directly makes more sense from a certainty of action and security perspective

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Re^3: CGI script cannot create file.
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 18, 2012 at 11:17 UTC
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