Hello All,

Something that really puzzles me. I got a neat script here from a fellow monk "nothingmuch" that works great to write a new line in another cgi script. The script that gets written to is originally chmod (ed) rwx-r x-r x, (755). However - once the script gets written to the chmod has become rw -r -r , that is, all the "executes" have been removed from the permissions and the original script will not run again till I go back to my host server and change it back manually. The code is below. Anyone know how to fix this?? Thanks so much for looking..... 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI ':standard'; 

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; 

open (FILE,"writeline.cgi");
open (TEMP,">external_file.txt.tmp");

my $i = 0;

while (<FILE>)
{ 
    if ($i == 13){ 
     
        $_ = "\$pageFile=\"webpage.html\";\n" if ($i == 13);
    } 

    print TEMP $_; 

} continue { 
    $i++; 
}

close FILE;
close TEMP;

unlink ("write.cgi"); 
rename ("external_file.txt.tmp","writeline.cgi");

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edited: Wed Oct 16 15:54:58 2002 by jeffa - code tags s/<br>//g

In reply to chmod changes on server when script runs by Donnie

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