John,
I did as you suggested and it works well. The readdir/while loop in the code above now looks like this:
opendir PLUGINS, "conf/plugins" or die "unable to opendir ./conf/plugi
+ns\n";
while (my $pluginfile = readdir(PLUGINS) ) {
my $localfile = Bio::Root::IO->catfile('conf/plugins',$pluginfile)
+;
if (-f $localfile) {
my $installfile = Bio::Root::IO->catfile($plugindir, $pluginfi
+le);
chmod (0666, $installfile);
copy($localfile, $installfile)
or die "$localfile unable to copy to $installfile : $!\n";
chmod (0444, $installfile);
}
}
closedir PLUGINS;
The only caveat being that I had to chmod the files to 444 (readonly by everyone, including the owner (root in this case)). It is fine for Windows, but an annoyance on unix. I would have preferred 644 (writeable by the owner), but on Windows, that is the same as world writeable (from Perl's chmod perspective).
(I hate having to type :w and then :w! when I am reminded once again that the file is readonly.)
Thanks,
Scott
Project coordinator of the Generic Model Organism Database Project
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