in reply to Cron, PERL and file permissions

There's no "confirmation" required for unlink - you either have permission or you don't. Are you by some chance using the rm command instead of unlink?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re: Re: Cron, PERL and file permissions
by runrig (Abbot) on Jan 05, 2002 at 22:12 UTC
    ..and even if he is (un-wisely) using rm instead of unlink, the rm's "-f" option would bypass that confirmation.
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