[Tutor] permissions and other hairpulls

[Kirk Bailey]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On Sunday 11 May 2003 05:56, Kirk Bailey wrote:
> 
>>permissions in FreeBSD are the most fustrating aspect of web scripting.
>>
> 
> 
> a good unix book might help here.  Using a perm of 666 is almost always a bad 
> idea.  Use 664 if you have to group permission.
> 
> 
>>Here is an error:
>>Traceback (innermost last):
>>    File "/www/www.listville.net/cgi-bin/TLlistmaker2.py", line 195, in ?
>>      os.chmod(fullpathtoscript+'/lists/'+mylist,666)
>>OSError: [Errno 79] Inappropriate file type or format:
>>'/www/www.listville.net/cgi-bin/lists/test33'
>>
> 
> 
> most odd.  I have no good idea about the cause to this.  A few google searches 
> reveal only weird questions from people with NFS issues.
> 
> If you try to run chmod by hand on the file, does it do anything interesting?
> 
nothing odd whatsoever. Which is odd.

> 
>>The script is attempting to set the mod to 666 for a file just created and
>>closed. It is created by the script, and examination shows it is 644.
>>Another scipt is trying later to add to it, and failing, for a permissions
>>reason. ALL scripts are 755, owned by nobody:wheel. All such text files are
>>also nobody:wheel, and work fine when 666, but problems when 644. Any
>>suggestions from the brethern?
> 
> 
> most likely group needs permission to write for some reason (not sure what the 
> file is or does).
> the file is a flat text file, with a bunch of email addresses in it, such as
me@here.org
you@there.org
us@noplace,bet
theclub@clubtown.info

The  idea is to append a new member to the existing file with an open statement.


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