Ok, I took all your advice and tried to run it from the
shell (by writing in the params manually (yyy for filename)) and the script
work fine (creates the file i ask yyy.html)!!! But when I
run it from http (I added the use CGI::Carp qw
(fatalsToBrowser); line) it outputs the following error to
http:

// start

yyy.html
Content-type: text/html
Software error:
Insecure dependency in open while running setgid
at /dev/fd/6 line 63.
Please send mail to this site's webmaster for help.


//end

once again the script is:
**************************************
**************************************

#!/local/0/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:all);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
print header;
.
..
...
$nameoffile=param('nameoffile');
#By the way when I tried to use
#$nameoffile=$query->param('nameoffile'); it returned the
#error "..param must be part of some structure..."
$myfilepath="$nameoffile".".html";
print "$myfilepath"; #good path returned to html

#http crashes here, unix prompt works fine
if (!(open (OUT, ">$myfilepath"))) { print "Error opening
file $myfilepath for writing."; exit 0; }

print "end\n"; #http never gets here

**************************************
**************************************

//none of the other shell debugging hints really apply
(like using $! for error) because script works great from
the shell.
Any ideas what this could mean anyone?

In reply to RE: Opening a file error by Cheburashka
in thread Opening a file error by Anonymous Monk

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