Rick Edwards wrote:
>
> I'm trying to change the ownership and permissions on a file but using
>
> unless (`chown root:root $working_file`) {
> do_something
> }
>
> Throws an "illegal seek" error. The only other alternative is to stat a
> file owned by root to get the uid etc, and then use perl's in built
> chown function to change the files ownership but this seems terribly
> long winded.
>
> Any suggestions ?
Use Perl's built-in 'chown' function.
perldoc -f chown
HTH,
Rob
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