>>>>> "aruna" == arunamathur  <Aruna> writes:

    aruna> Hi, I am developing a webinterface for updating few files
    aruna> installed on my LINUX machine, for which I have created a
    aruna> file user.html and this file calls a file named
    aruna> "newuser.pl", which just takes the data of the user.html
    aruna> form and appends it in a file in its directory name
    aruna> "user_test". The script written in newuser.pl is working
    aruna> fine when i am manually executing it. But when the script
    aruna> is executed from the webpage, it does everything correct
    aruna> except that it doesn't updates the file "user_test". Can
    aruna> anybody suggest why is it happening?

The script runs under the user and group privileges of the web server
when called as CGI.  Is your file writable by that user/group?

BTW, please do not post HTML messages to the list.  Plain text works
as well and is much easier to download and parse for most of us.

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