snip > So I guess the question is - > > - is there a way in perl to authorize the callED perl script to have > higher perms than the callING app's, so that it can write to the file I'm > targeting? > > Or do I have to to this OUTSIDE of the perl script? >
The short answer is that this is OS dependent. The longer answer is in Linux, only if the script is running as root (directly, through suid, or via sudo) and you probably don't want to do that. A better question is the script is writing to a file owned by a different user. That is outside of the normal way of doing things in UNIX.
