Hi Bruce,

Good question. Here are the results.

The permissions for the /Users/xxxxxx/Documents directory is:

drwx------ 7 xxxxxx xxxxxx 238 27 Apr 15:08 Documents

The permission for the /Users/xxxxxx/Library/Scripts directory is:

drwxr-xr-x 3 xxxxxx xxxxxx 102 27 Apr 14:22 Scripts

Does that look write? Or should the Documents directory be the same as the Scripts Directory?

Thanks,

Mark


On Apr 27, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Bruce Van Allen wrote:


On 4/27/04 Mark Wheeler wrote:

Yup. You're right. I missed that one. Here's what I did to simplify the
testing of the script.

copy("/Users/xxxxxx/Documents/db1.txt",
"/Users/xxxxxx/Documents/db1.txt.bak") or warn "Can't copy file: $!";

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I know the cron is firing off the request, because when first tried it,
I got Permission Denied in my email box. So I changed the permission to
755 and it still doesn't copy the file. And I get nothing in my email
box. I'm a little confused. What am I missing?

Is that "Permission Denied" for execution of your script? Perhaps it's for writing the file. Check the write permissions of the "/Users/xxxxxx/Documents" directory.

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- Bruce


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