I have a cross platform CGI application, it does great on *nix systems, but my reporting system is having trouble creating files and directories on Solaris (both v8 and v9). The programs run fine, just no output files and no errors thrown or I get an empty file. The output comes from both my program and a couple of modules (SpreadSheet::WriteExcel for one). But this is pretty simple stuff, for instance: 

if (!(-e $newdir)) {
    mkdir $newdir, 0766 or die "couldn't mkdir $newdir because: $!\n";
    chmod (0777, $newdir)or die "couldn't chmod $newdir because: $!\n"
+;
    }

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Under *nix this creates my report directory, under Solaris, I get nothing.

Is there anything unique to Solaris in regards to permissions or users that are gotchas that could be causing this?

g_White

In reply to Solaris IO? by gwhite

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