Appending to Files on NT?

[mr_dont]

Fellow Monks,

I am stumped by the behaviour of file functions on a windows NT Server I am using. Basically, I can open a file for reading, but I cannot append to a file. I am using the absolute path in my open statement. I have also tried to use the binmode() function, to no avail. Thus my code looks something like:

$somestuff = "This is a new line for my data file";
$filename = "d:/foo/bar/myfile.dat";

open (DATA,">>$filename") || die("Cannot Open Database File");
binmode (DATA);
print DATA $somestuff; 
close DATA;

This code dies and gives me my "Cannot open database file" error

I also tried to use the path d:\\foo\\bar\\myfile.dat

Does anymonk know what is the problem? Is it a permissions issue? Unfortunately, I am not the administrator of this server!

Thanks Monks...

[wog]

You can probably tell what the problem is by including the special variable $! in the error message.

update: added link

[tye]

Excellent idea. In this particular case, the value of $^E might also be helpful. I suspect that the file is open by a program that isn't sharing write access. See the Win32API::File documentation of the $svShare argument to createFile() for more information on this.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

[mr_dont]

Right wog!

Thanks for the tip! It was a permissions problem. Hmmm... I hope I hope I can set the permissions of the file on the NT server using my linux ftp client!

[grep]

I would check your permissions on that file. Else, if this is a CGI application you need to check the permissions of either the IIS anonymous user or the authenticated user.

HTH

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[Anonymous Monk]

maybe this comes from the the access permissions. try the chmod() function , it gives quite the same results that the DOS-SHELL ATTRIB function. hope this will help...