[Chicago-talk] Permission?

[Andrew Rodland]

On Saturday 16 December 2006 12:35 pm, Richard Reina wrote:
> Hope everyone is having a great weekend.
>   When I execute:
>
>
>  $: perl -ni.bak -e 'print unless 1..1' my_log.txt'
>
>  I get:
>
>  can't rename my_log.txt to my_log.txt.bak: Permission denied, skipping
> file.
>
>  However, the permissions for my_log.txt and my_log.txt.bak are:
>
>  -rwxrwxrwx root root
>

The permission on the file doesn't matter, you need write permission on the 
directory that it's in.

Andrew