Re: Re: Re: opening new file in different directory

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

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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]

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Re(4): opening new file in different directory
by graq (Curate) on Oct 24, 2001 at 18:47 UTC

__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__
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Permission denied

__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__
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