Monte, The path that you show is a relative path and not an absolute path. put a leading '/' on the path and try it again.
-Richard At 03:34 PM 9/7/2002 -0700, you wrote: >In order to process a user request to make changes to the >user's preference file, I have to write to a file from a Servlet. >When I try to write to the file I get the following exception: > >java.io.FileNotFoundException: >usr50/home/mgardne/public_html/servlets/artxml/pacman.xml >(No such file or directory) > at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) > at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:102) > at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:62) > at java.io.FileOutputStream.(FileOutputStream.java:132) > at java.io.FileWriter.(FileWriter.java:43) > at art.Artist.writeTo(Artist.java:88) > at art.Artist.writeTo(Artist.java:101) > at artists.upload2_7._jspService(upload2_7.java:181) > at > org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119) > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java) > at >org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.doService(ServletHandler.java:574) > at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.invoke(Handler.java:322) > at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:235) > at >org.apache.tomcat.facade.ServletHandler.service(ServletHandler.java:485) > at >org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:917) > at >org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:833) > at >org.apache.tomcat.modules.server.Ajp13Interceptor.processConnection(Ajp13Interceptor.java:341) > at >org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:494) > at >org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:516) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479) > > >I have checked several times, and the file does in fact exists. The file >and the directory which contains it both have full file permissions(777). >What could be causing this problem? > >--Monte Glenn Gardner > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > >Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html >Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html >LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html