Hello Everyone,
I am sure that my pure ignorance is starting to show. Visual
Basic I do decent with. At times, I feel like I am really
starting to pick up on this perl stuff, then at other times,
like right now, I feel like someone needs to blow in my ear
to give me a refill.
I am stuck on chmod inside a script now. I have seen several
references telling me to do it:
chmod (0644, "/etc/aliases");
OR
chmod 0644, "/etc/aliases";
I have tried both and several variations thereof. But, I am
still having problems. I am writing to the /var/aliases file
and if I have permissions set to 666, I can write to it from
the script. But, for the autoreply.pl to access it and for
the newaliases command to access it, it needs to be set at
644.
So, I thought, cool. I will just chmod in the script to
satisfy both requirements, but I cannot get the chmod to
run from within the script at all.
I am on Perl 5 if that is of any consequence.
Thank you for any aid you might offer.
P.S. I read the security faq. Thanks for pointing that out.
Bill Platt
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