Re: append a file to another file - copy

2001-06-01 Thread Chas Owens
The difference is his boss feels (emphasis on feels) safer. On 01 Jun 2001 17:39:31 -0400, KeN ClarK wrote: > So anycrack could write to it prior to it being 'moved' right? And then > you have non-world-writeable data under the premise it is untampered. > What's the difference? > > Ken > > On F

Re: append a file to another file - copy

2001-06-01 Thread Nichole Bialczyk
apparently it makes him feel better about it knowing that there is only a 24 hour period that it could be tampered with. i can't imagine anyone *wanting* to tamper with our data, but apparently there is a lot of rivalry in the university system and he wants to limit what they have access to.

Re: append a file to another file - copy

2001-06-01 Thread KeN ClarK
So anycrack could write to it prior to it being 'moved' right? And then you have non-world-writeable data under the premise it is untampered. What's the difference? Ken On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nichole Bialczyk wrote: > well, so the copy didn't work. it required me to place 'use File::Copy;' > in my

Re: append a file to another file - copy

2001-06-01 Thread Paul
--- Nichole Bialczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to be more specific, i want to do this: read and delete all of the > lines from a log file, except for the first one. open IN, $file or die "$file:$!"; ;# throw away first line; print ; # print the rest of the file.

Re: append a file to another file - copy

2001-06-01 Thread Nichole Bialczyk
well, so the copy didn't work. it required me to place 'use File::Copy;' in my script, but i got an error message. to be more specific, i want to do this: read and delete all of the lines from a log file, except for the first one. i keep thinking grep, but isn't that only a unix command? and