Hmm, I've tried this but it doesn't seem to change the file permissions at all on the backup file. I checked into it, and my stat command or $mode in this case is equal to 33261. Is that a normal output for the mode in the stat command? I'm on a Solaris 8 system.
Thanks, Craig (Sorry if the wording of this questions is horrible. I'm just waking up) > Here, this shows you the basics of retaining file permissions. > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use warnings; > use File::Copy; > use strict; > my $mode = (stat $ARGV[0])[2]; > copy( "$ARGV[0]", "$ARGV[0]\.bak" ); > chmod ($mode, "$ARGV[0]\.bak"); > print "Backup completed.\n"; > exit 0; > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
