that's what i thought, too. but i already did that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Asim Memon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Nichole Bialczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: writing to a text file --> permission denied
> are you sure the permissions are set...as in if the browser is
> writing then you have to make sure the file is writable by
> everyone...
> just to make sure so a
> chmod 777 filename
>
> this will let everyone write to your file.
> -asim
>
> --- Nichole Bialczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > when i put in the $! i get the error message Permission denied. i
> > also tried
> > to do it the standard way with the open...or die... statement, but
> > then i
> > got an internal server error 500. sometimes i think it's better to
> > write
> > your own code than to modify existing code. grrrrrrrrrrrrr....
> >
> > i really appreciate everyone's help. maybe one day i can aspire to
> > be a
> > guru! :)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Nichole Bialczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:17 AM
> > Subject: Re: writing to a text file
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:00:49AM -0500, Nichole Bialczyk wrote:
> > > > i'm trying to write a log file and i can't seem to open it to
> > write to.
> > the file does exist. here is the code for opening the file:
> > > >
> > > > if(! open(LOG, ">xxx.txt)) {
> > > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> > > > print "Can't open xxx.txt\n";
> > > > exit;
> > > > }
> > > > print LOG "At $date, $ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'} etc., etc.
> > >
> > > I'd suggest putting $! in your output, to better figure out why
> > you can't
> > > open the file.
> > >
> > > For example:
> > >
> > > if (! open(LOG, ">xxx.txt")) {
> > > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> > > print "Can't open xxx.txt: \l$!.\n";
> > > exit; # ^^^^
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > Michael
> > > --
> > > Administrator www.shoebox.net
> > > Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com
> > > --
> > >
> >
>
>
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