Why would you steal someone else's question??  It's apparent that the original post was plagiarized from this site, written June 4, 2004:

I am currently writing a script to dump data from a mysql database

I am trying to create a directory which is writable to by everyone
so the user which the mysqld is running under has access to write
the file

this is the type of command I am creating the directory with


my $dump_dir = $output_dir."/".$dbname;
if(! -e $dump_dir){
mkdir($dump_dir, 0777) or throw("Couldn't make ".$dump_dir." $! ");
}


but this is the privileges i get for the directory

drwxr-xr-x 2 lec ensembl 8192 Jun 4 15:15 briggsae_new_2

does anyone know what I am doing wrong
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Sure, you've changed the group name from "lec ensembl" to "lec sieter", but the question has almost the same wording, the code is identical, and you even kept time ("15:15") and size (8192) of the file the same.

So I repeat, madtoperl, "Why are you plagiarizing other people's questions?!"