At 06:11 PM 9/9/2005, you wrote: >Thank you for the very prompt response. > >If I assume that it's the System that's running the script via the cron, >isn't System the owner of the file that results from wget? Or do wgetted >files belong to someone else? And do Awk and Cat require different >permission levels (presumably awk is more lax than cat because even >though they were doing the same thing, cat couldn't see the file >contents whereas awk could). Besides, from my ls in my previous mail, it >appears to me that user-group-other all have read permissions to all the >files so it shouldn't even matter? > >Do you have any recommendations on how I can change my script or some >setting to fix the problem? I could change all my cat and head >statements to awk statements, but that seems more like treating the >symptom rather than the disease.
I think it's worthwhile to consider Brian's comments before making any changes to your scripts... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
