Ah, umask. Forgot that one as I rarely change it on my own servers, and naturally set it in my profile at the shell. Thanks for the hints about IO::File, I will check it out, though using the regular open followed by a chmod seems to be holding up under fire.
http://danconia.org Michael Fowler wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:49:05PM -0400, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > >>however, I am still curious about open's ability to do this rather than >>requiring a separate function, so can it? > > > The open function can't accomplish what you want. The sysopen function, or > IO::File's open, can nearly accomplish what you want. > > The latter two can take a permissions argument (see perldoc -f sysopen, > perldoc IO::File). However, the permissions are affected by the umask > (perldoc -f umask, man umask), which is why you're having problems now; the > umask was changed, affecting the default permissions of your file. > > > Michael > -- > Administrator www.shoebox.net > Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com > -- > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
