Re: strange script behaviour

2001-03-02 Thread David Brett
I have the script running as root, so permissions should not be a problem david On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Is the script running as a user that doesn't have permission to write the file (or >even directory) you've chosen? Try making a directory /testtmp with a testfile in it

Re: strange script behaviour

2001-03-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Is the script running as a user that doesn't have permission to write the file (or even directory) you've chosen? Try making a directory /testtmp with a testfile in it then chmod -R 777 /testtmp and run it from cron again. Did you install the recent RH cron update? If so maybe that's what broke

strange script behaviour

2001-03-02 Thread David Brett
I have a perl script which has run for days without any problems. Last weekend it was stopped, during a reboot. The script generates output which is put into a file. This file gets over written each time the script loops through. The output was orginally redirected to the file. Here is the s