Thanks for pointing me in a better direction. I used this ...
> $now = time;
> utime $now, $now, @files; # sets access and modification time
... and expanded it to this ...
$now = time;
print $now;
@meters = ("test0612d.shtml");
foreach $file (@meters) {
utime $now, $now, $file or print "Couldn't
touch $file: $!\n";
}
At least now I'm getting an error message displayed in the web
browser. The error is: "Not Owner".
I made a symbolic link to the file I want to touch and then
proceeded to try to change ownership to the symbolic
link. I can only assume that the perl script I'm executing
has the owner "Nobody" when it is running. When I tried
to:
chown Nobody test0612d.shtml
... I got the same error "Not Owner"
when I:
ls -l test0612d.shtml
ls -l work0513f.cgi
it says that I am the owner, so I should be able to
change the owner to Nobody, or at least change
the owner to "root". But every time I attempt it
I get the error "Not Owner".
Thanks for any help ...
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