hi all,
have a script which i am using to generate a log file. i use "touch out.log" command to create the file and later on i want to echo lines to this file.

for some reason it keeps giving me this error when i try and create the file ;

touch: out.log cannot create

i have permissions to create files in the directory where my script sits since its my home directory. so i dont understand what else is wrong ??

directory permissions where my script sits is "drwxr-xr-x"


thanks.

Are you able to create files with other commands?
since you told you want to echo in that file, try to redirect the echo into the file.

echo "message" >> out.log

It looks as permission problem. Check the permission of directoty where you run.
ls -l .

Maybe, u'r not the owner of that file. You can use "chmod +w" to modify the permission of the file