Hi Folks,

I have a CGI that writes to a flat file and does some other functionality. I have built an "admin" front-end to edit the records of the flat file (by pre-populating the form the user entered, allowing the admin to make edits/changes). That works just fine, but now I want to have the ability to DELETE a record/line in the flat file -- and I think it is because it's owned by httpd. I would make sense if I'm having permission issues as nothing happens when I try to delete but the code checks clean. Here's the relevant snippets. 

$logfile = "tempfile.tmp";
$logfileOrig = "logfile.log";


chmod 777, $logfile;     #the 777 is for testing,  
chmod 777, $logfileOrig; #it won't be WIDE open

sub makeff {

    #copy existing logfile to tempfile, while skipping record I want d
+eleted
        
    open (LOGFILE, ">$logfile") or die("Can't Open Log File at $logfil
+e");
    open (ORIG, "<$logfileOrig") or die("Can't Open Log File at $logfi
+leOrig");

    while (my $origLine = <ORIG>) {

    $currentline ++;
        print LOGFILE $origLine unless $currentline == $linenumber;
    }

    close (ORIG);
    close (LOGFILE);
    rename $logfile, $logfileOrig if $linenumber;
}

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$linenumber is the value passed to the delete CGI
       print OUTFILE "<FORM NAME=\"FORM\" METHOD=\"POST\" ACTION=\"del
+ete.cgi\">";
       print OUTFILE "<input type='hidden' name='linenumber' value='$l
+inenumber'>";
       print OUTFILE "<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE=\"DELETE THIS RECORD\">
+</FORM><br>\n";

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Note there is no administration of this server and I can't su into it either. Please let me know if you see where I'm off somewhere. Thanks Folks!

lakeTrout

UPDATE: I added essentially the entire script to my scratch pad (I removed some extraneous stuff, like the 40 something for querys for better readability). I know it's crude, but it WORKS, except for the delete part I'm trying to build.

In reply to chmod/chown problem with httpd by lakeTrout

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