Orpheus — Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:44:00 +0000

I thin i've found a way to do it but i'm wondering if it is really good for the system resources.

If I chmod the dir 777, then create the file it works fine. THen I change it back to 755 and no one will notice. BUT the question now is how system friendly is this?

This will only be creating about 1 file in possible 10 directories so i'm pretty sure it won't be a big strain. So is it secure?

Anyone of you big UNIX techie guys care to help me out a little?

Orpheus — Thu, 09 Mar 2000 03:11:00 +0000

This is creating files

UNIX permissions only allow certain users to create files without chmoding them something else.

It's very weird.
When in doubt.. root

roBofh — Thu, 09 Mar 2000 02:38:00 +0000

doesn't that only work if you've got group or user write access to the files, in which case you wouldn't need to chmod it?

fairhousing — Thu, 09 Mar 2000 01:34:00 +0000

neato!

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Orpheus — Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:44:00 +0000

I never thought of doing that, thanks.

roBofh — Wed, 08 Mar 2000 20:03:00 +0000

If you put the user perl is running as into a special group, then you chmod 771 the directory, and chgrp the directory to that special group.

fairhousing — Wed, 08 Mar 2000 19:22:00 +0000

hmm, not that i know of, but i think u know more about perl than i do.

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