Bob Showalter wrote:
I'm still struggling to think of a real-world situation where a
file would _have_ to be created as rw-rw-rw- or rwxrwxrwx.
There may be a need to grant more than one user write access. CGI
scripts are running as the webserver user by default, and if you let
e.g. sendmail start
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Bob Showalter wrote:
> > Chris Devers wrote:
> > > Maybe the program is a code generator that produces other files
> > > which should be executable (I can't remember anyone doing this,
> > > but there's no reason why it couldn't be reasonably be done).
> >
> > Fine, use
Bob Showalter wrote:
Chris Devers wrote:
Maybe the program is a code generator that produces other files
which should be executable (I can't remember anyone doing this,
but there's no reason why it couldn't be reasonably be done).
Fine, use creation bits of 0777.
Are you saying that
open FH, ">
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Bob Showalter wrote:
> Chris Devers wrote:
>
> > Maybe the program is a code generator that produces other
> > files which should be executable (I can't remember anyone doing this,
> > but there's no reason why it couldn't be reasonably be done).
>
> Fine, use creation bits
Chris Devers wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Bob Showalter wrote:
>
> > Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> > >
> > > If the program, for some reason, requires that a file it creates
> > > has certain permissions, isn't it better to have the program set
> > > those permissions?
> >
> > Why would the progr
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Bob Showalter wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> >
> > If the program, for some reason, requires that a file it creates has
> > certain permissions, isn't it better to have the program set those
> > permissions?
>
> Why would the program itself require this? Perhaps the
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks for the support .the following is the code I have written.
> Working fine.
Still not right though -- it was suggested to you that you use the $!
variable in your die statement so that you get the error message, hence:
do_stuff( $arg) or di
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Bob Showalter wrote:
> > You need to set umask to 0 before creating the file.
> >
> > But don't do that. It's inadvisable to mess with the umask in a
> > program, IMO.
>
> Why would that be inadvisable?
The spirit of umask is to allow the user/sysadmin to control the
Bob Showalter wrote:
You need to set umask to 0 before creating the file.
But don't do that. It's inadvisable to mess with the umask in a
program, IMO.
Why would that be inadvisable?
If the user wants to create files as 666, let him set the umask
before running your program.
If the program, for som
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys !
Thanks for the support .the following is the code I have written.
Working fine.
===
open(LOG,">$main::TRACELOGFILE") or die "Can't open trace file
$main::TRACELOGFILE";
system("chown XXX:Y $main::TRACELOGFILE");
system("chmo
");
system("chmod 0666 $main::TRACELOGFILE");
Arjun
-Original Message-
From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 6:16 PM
To: Perl Beginners
Subject: Re: how to open a file with 666 permission
Bob Sh
Bob Showalter wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My requirement is to open file with 666 permissions.
You need to set umask to 0 before creating the file.
But don't do that. It's inadvisable to mess with the umask in a program,
IMO. If the user wants to create files as 666, let him set the umask befor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hai!
Hello,
My requirement is to open file with 666 permissions.[If fine doesn't
exists it should get created ].Iam doing as below,is this ok.
===
sysopen(LOG,"$main::TRACELOGFILE",O_CREATE,0666) or die "Can't open
trace file $main::TRACELOGFILE";
==
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hai!
> My requirement is to open file with 666 permissions.
You need to set umask to 0 before creating the file.
But don't do that. It's inadvisable to mess with the umask in a program,
IMO. If the user wants to create files as 666, let him set the umask before
running
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