I've written a script that now generates files based on information submitted through an HTML form. Everything works fine, but I can never seem to get the file permissions set correctly. I think my problem is that the script creates the file as user "99". I've tried to make changes to the files manually as "myusername" but I always get a permission denied.
My next guess was to use the chmod command in the script, so that hopefully this command would be issued as user "99". 

chmod 0666, file.txt;    #tried this way
system("chmod 666 file.txt");      #and this way

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Neither one of these change the permissions. Basically, I'm not sure how to change the file permissions from within the script. There has to be a simple way and I'm just missing something.

One other thing...Is there a way to create a file as a different user, so that I don't have to deal with trying to change the permissions through the script? If so, how do I find out what my uid (etc) is? When ever files are created as user "99" I have to call up and get the root user to remove the files since my user doesn't have permissions. Big pain! Any suggestions? TIA

In reply to create file - permission problems by emilford

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