strikr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm using the unlink command to delete a file off an NT server, but everytime it runs it changes the permissions of the file so that it doesn't delete and the admin can't even delete it.

Is there a different way to use unlink on an NT server then a UNIX server?

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Re: Unlink on NT
by jkahn (Friar) on Oct 17, 2002 at 20:28 UTC
    works for me. 
    D:\TEMP>touch temp.file

D:\TEMP>dir temp*
 Volume in drive D is APPS&DATA
 Volume Serial Number is 70E2-28A6

 Directory of D:\TEMP

10/17/02  01:27p                     0 temp.file
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
                            425,926,656 bytes free

D:\TEMP>perl -e "unlink('temp.file') or warn"

D:\TEMP>dir temp*
 Volume in drive D is APPS&DATA
 Volume Serial Number is 70E2-28A6

 Directory of D:\TEMP

File Not Found

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Re: Unlink on NT
by strikr (Initiate) on Oct 17, 2002 at 20:56 UTC
    I am using it in a cgi program. Does that have any implecations?
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      CGI scripts under IIS run as the internet guest user (typically IUSR_MACHINE_NAME). If that is the user that created the file then there should be no problem.

      Bear in mind also, that the user will need write/modify access to the directory inorder to create or delete files in it.

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        Can I set a global permission so that anyone with access to the script can delete the file?
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