Dynamic File Creation

[Anon]

I have written a script that creates a monthly file. The file is created using TOUCH. It works fine on my offline development Linux PC but when I upload it, the scripts fails due to lack of permission to create the file. Is there anyway round this ? I tried changing the script to use FOPEN with W+ but still get the same problem.

TIA,

Andrew

[Anon]

I had a similar problem when creating a log file that should be located in a subdir like
"logs/file.log". Though I still don't know why, I could figure out that the executable flag
for "other" had to be set for the log directory in order to work, e.g. file permission: 745.
Then I could create/append the file using fopen($logfile, "a+").
Thus perhaps you have to set this bit.

Maybe anyone can tell me why to I had to set this? Can a directory really be executable? I am not so experienced with Linux yet.... ;-)

Michael aka Unique

[Anon]

Yes, a directory can be executable 😉
You only can get into that directory if it has the "x" flag on. If not, you have not access to it

Regards...
Celta ([e-mail])