On Apr 7, 2005 2:53 PM, Matthew Benjamin <msbenjamin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is your script creating a NEW file in /var/myfolder, or is it appending > to an existing file? > > What are the ownership and permissions on the /var/myfolder directory? > > Creating a new file. > Ownership apache:apache > Permissions was: 755 now: 777 Well, I would think that 777 should let ANY user create a file. I was going to ask if perhaps something in the script was changing the UID/GID of the effective user who was creating the file, but 777 would seem to not make a difference then. When you execute the perl file manually, what user are you using to do it? I mean if you do "su - apache" (can you su to apache???) can you still run the script? When you run the script manually as yourself, what is the ownership of the files in /var/myfolder? If the script is doing something to change to a different user or group, then you should be able to tell. Here's another thing... who is the owner of "program.pl" and what are the permissions on that file, and the directory that owns it? -- David Registered Linux User 383030 (since everyone else was doing it 8-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
