Hi Monks,

I hope one of you lot can help me with this as i am not all that clued up with directory permissions.

I have a form that takes input from users on the web and passes it to a script for processing. I would then like the script to write a file, with the name based on date and time (so that only one entry exists per file) to a directory on my server.

I have heard that writing files to the webroot (i.e in the cgi-bin dir) is not advised, so i opted to write the file to a directory within /var/log/.

Below is the bit of code i have wrote:

open (LOGFILE, ">> /var/log/webd/input.log") ;

print LOGFILE "$userwebinput\n" ;

close (LOGFILE) ;

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This will obviosly only create a file called input.log and not one based on the time and date.
Also, What permissions will the /var/log/webd/ directory need to allow the script to write files that currently do not exist to it?

In reply to Writing Files To Directorys by ap3k

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