On Wednesday, Sep 17, 2003, at 18:50 US/Pacific, ram Osuri wrote:
I agree with your assesment .. to solve this problem you might want to do a
chmod 777 newfile.txt and then run the program it will work then
Actually there are two problems with this.
a. there is no reason to set the execute bits,
chmod 666 would work fine enough - there is also
the problem that the file would have to exist.b. if the problem is that the directory where the file
is to be created does not allow the user to write to
begin with, then the chmod will fail.to demonstrate I created a directory and chown'd it to user admin, so even those I and admin are in the same group, I can not create files in the directory because only the user admin has write permission on the directory.
eg: [jeeves: 3:] ls -ltra total 0 drwxrwxrwx 29 drieux house 986 Sep 17 15:59 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 admin house 68 Sep 17 15:59 . [jeeves: 4:] touch file touch: file: Permission denied [jeeves: 5:] chmod 777 file chmod: file: No such file or directory [jeeves: 6:] chmod 777 file chmod: file: Operation not permitted [jeeves: 7:] ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 admin house 0 Sep 17 16:01 file [jeeves: 8:] perl -e 'open(FD, ">file") or die "file :$!"; ' file :Permission denied at -e line 1. [jeeves: 9:]
note between command 5 and 6, I did a touch of the the file 'file' so that it would exist and show you the problem of the chmod on the existing file I did not have permission to write to...
HTH.
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