>>>>> "RJK" == Ronald J Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RJK> As Tal suggested, you should be using "or" instead. (Putting RJK> parentheses around chmod's arguments would also work.) i agree with that but the OP should also put $! in the die message so if there is an error she can know what it is. can you create a short runnable script which shows this problem? create a dir or file with perms you want to change (not 0777), show the ls -l of that, run the short script (should just be that one line, could be perl -e) and the another ls -l showing the new or unchanged perms. here is what it should look like: > touch foo > ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 uri staff 0 Aug 11 11:40 foo > perl -e 'chmod 0777, "foo" or die "chmod failed $!"' > ls -l foo -rwxrwxrwx 1 uri staff 0 Aug 11 11:40 foo* > uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
