Hello,
I'm downloading an image in perl using image::grab. The image is a weather image for my area. The script works, but will only save the new file if I manually delete the old one.
I can't get perl to delete it's own file from within perl. When I try to manually delete it, I get: 
override rw-r--r--  www/admin for 1image.jpg?

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and as www/admin I can. I tried changing the file permissions before deleting it in my perl script, but it didn't work: 
$imgfile=">/Library/WebServer/Documents/gcdata/".$id."image.jpg";
$cmd1 = "chown me ".$imgfile."";
$cmd2 = "chmod 777 ".$imgfile."";
$cmd3 = "rm ".$imgfile."";
if (-e $file){
system "$cmd1";
system "$cmd2";
system "$cmd3";
}

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Do I need to run my web accessible perl script as another user? I can usually pull this off, but it's always been with txt documents, not images.
thanks
tim

In reply to Kill file that I created, and recreate by ecuguru

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