Re: Perl Permissions

chmod (0777, $currentlog); # << shouldnt this give me permission?!?!

and

I'm doing this on a windows platform by the way

To the best of my knowledge (awaits chorus of "what ARE you talking about, if I'm wrong), Windows doesn't know diddly from chmod.

(Nor did my cursory search of the perl docs reveal a chmod facility (UPDATE, clarity:) which applies to Windows.)

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Re^2: Perl Permissions by chrism01 (Friar) on Dec 04, 2006 at 01:08 UTC
FYI: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/chmod.html, for Perl, although you may well be right about MS, certainly if filesys is VFAT/FAT32 ? NTFS may support something similar? Chris	[reply]
Re^3: Perl Permissions by ww (Archbishop) on Dec 04, 2006 at 16:58 UTC
Chrism... I think you're missing the point: Windows does not support unix style permissions. It has its own scheme and quite different "system hooks.</" Hence, unless the docs for your W32 version of perl specifically say that `chmod` DWIMS on an IIS server, it's extremely UNLIKELY to do so. See: http://www.tnsites.com/support/s_CHMOD-tutorial.asp How to convert CHMOD Commands (Permission Codes) to Windows Permissions You cannot set CHMOD on a Windows 2003 server since that is a Unix/Linux server command function that does not work on Windows IIS5 servers.... Suggest you read the original (above), or, similarly, http://www.1planhost.com/support/s_CHMOD-tutorial.asp and many other ISP explanations (LIGHT APPEARS! ...perhaps even that provided by the relevant ISP?) Other, perhaps useful discussions appear at: http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/chmod.1.asp http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20020930/123647.html "With command line access you can use attrib, but this won't allow you to add/change account/group access. ... You probably need to add read/write/modify access the IIS web server account to the target directory." http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/archive/topic/22905-1.html (assume garish background, hurts the eyes, but ain't entirely useless. Hope this helps.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl Permissions by chrism01 (Friar) on Dec 05, 2006 at 04:41 UTC
I'm sure you're exactly right, as I NEVER work on MS :). I knew MS FS didn't support Unix style perms, but I had heard there were similar concepts in some MS filesystem(s).	[reply]