Re: Re: opening new file in different directory

I might be being a bit thick but I can't get it to work. It looks as though the WRITE line only works if $result is a file, not a file path. I find that

my $file = "/home/htdocs/hosted/thinweb/trainingboard.co.uk/consumers/
+savedsearches/$g{'SearchFile'}";
open(WRITE,">$file") or die $!;
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fails, whereas

chdir "/home/htdocs/hosted/thinweb/trainingboard.co.uk/consumers/saved
+searches";
open(WRITE,">$g{'SearchFile'}") or die $!;
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succeeds. (NB the earlier lines I posted were re-written to make the examples easier to read - the above are as in my actual script, just in case there's something else funny going on... in which case I apologise for my over-zealous desire to do a tidy post).

§ George Sherston

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Re(3):: opening new file in different directory by graq (Curate) on Oct 23, 2001 at 19:44 UTC
Ok. First things first, add some verbosity to your error handling: `open(WRITE,">$file") or die( "Cannot write to $file: $!" );` And then let us know what the whole error is, makes it much easier :) -- Graq	[reply]
Re: Re(3):: opening new file in different directory by George_Sherston (Vicar) on Oct 23, 2001 at 19:49 UTC
Same error as before, `No such file or directory`. I left out the verbosity because (A) I haven't decided how to do it yet, so not sure what I have to put in my error string (B) $! points me to the line, which is all I need to know for now... and I know it well anyway, alas (C) I didn't want too much wrapping and (D) I guessed that nobody wd be copying my code since it's effectively labelled as broken. Still, I know this is one of those points on which the monastery is rightly `strict`.... /me goes into the dungeon for a moment's mortification. § George Sherston	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re(3):: opening new file in different directory by IraTarball (Monk) on Oct 23, 2001 at 20:48 UTC
Not to be an ass, but how would this help us? It seems the germane info is in `$!` not the script name and line number. I'm really asking and not trying to fish slap you. Ira, "So... What do all these little arrows mean?" ~unknown	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re(3):: opening new file in different directory by buckaduck (Chaplain) on Oct 24, 2001 at 00:43 UTC
Look at it again: `open(WRITE,">$file") or die( "Cannot write to $file: $!" );` [download] You are missing the point of his request. He wants to see what `$file` is, in addition to the `$!` variable. Why? Because the error "No such file or directory" begs the question "What file is the program trying to create, and in what directory?" buckaduck	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Re(3):: opening new file in different directory by IraTarball (Monk) on Oct 24, 2001 at 01:26 UTC
Re: Re: Re: opening new file in different directory by IraTarball (Monk) on Oct 23, 2001 at 20:42 UTC
Man this smells like a permissions issue. It's possible to have permission to `cd` into a directory without having permission to `ls` in it. This is a freaky benefit of the *nix user/group permission bits. If'n I was you, I'd play with accessing these files from the command line, just with `touch` and `vi`, to see if there's some intermediate directory that's got permission funkiness. Make sure you do this with the user that the script runs as. Or, another good thing to see, would be the `ls -ld` output on the directories you've listed up there. This is one of those things that, as blackmateria said, should work. It's irritating that it doesn't. Ira, "So... What do all these little arrows mean?" ~unknown	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re(4): opening new file in different directory by graq (Curate) on Oct 24, 2001 at 18:47 UTC
I am not convinced it has anything to do with the permissions on the file or directory. From the paths used in the original post, it is not a Windoze machine, so with a little cut'n'paste from a Mandrake box: `__PASTE-ONE__ ~/temp/graq> ls -l -r-------- 1 graq graq 7 Oct 24 15:50 Testing.txt ~/temp/graq> cd .. ~/temp> chmod 100 graq ~/temp> perl relpath.pl graq/Testing.txt: Permission denied __END__` [download] So the error is `Permission denied` for a file with permission problems. __PASTE-TWO__ ~/temp> cat relpath.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $file = 'graq/Testing.txt'; open( TESTING, ">$file") or die ( "$file: $!\n" ); print TESTING `date`; close TESTING; __END__ [download] <a href="http://www.graq.co.uk">Graq</a>	[reply] [d/l] [select]