I think that symlinks under Plesk have different permissions than Unix permissions. As a work-around, I experimented with Setup::File::Symlink. Instead of checking permissions, I checked for status---either 200 or 304 in this case.

Here I used a dry run. If you want to create a symlink, comment out name and change -dry_run => 1 to 0. It requires 5.10.1+. 


#!/usr/bin/perl

use Modern::Perl;
use Setup::File::Symlink qw(setup_symlink);

my $x = '/root/Desktop/tmp';

my $res = setup_symlink(
        name => "create(dry run)",
        symlink => "/y",
        target => "/$x/x",
        other_args => {-dry_run => 1},
        status => 200,
        exists => 1,
);
print "status: 200\n", if $res->[0] == 200;
print "status: 304\n", if $res->[0] == 304;

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In reply to Re: -e file test won't follow symlinks? by Khen1950fx
in thread -e file test won't follow symlinks? by consultant1027

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