hi everyone
I have a directory /usr5/sch.
The shell is /bin/csh/. In this directory, I have a script called cs-claims-tst that runs an object cobol that going over a few other directory and open files and inserting them to d.b!
If i run this script from its current directory, it works o.k, but
I have another directory /usr2/hafala.

And i did like this:
cd /usr2/hafala
ln -s /usr5/sch/cs-claims-tst

When I run the script in this directory, (shell(/bin/csh)) it's not open my directories unless I will do chmod 777 for the files in all the directories (something like 20).

My question is, why doesn't he recognized it
My second problem: if there is not solution for this problem that means
that I need to go to account call manager and do chmod 777 for the directories from their and i don't know how to do this because the shell
in the manager is /usr/bin/ksh.

please someone help me to solve the problem
thank's a lot

First, post what userid you are using (found with "id" command). Then post the output of the following commands:

ls -ld /usr2/hafala
ls -ld /usr2/sch

Your issue may be as simple as requiring read permissions versus setting all files to 777 (which is read, write, execute).

Also, the chmod command works the same in ksh and csh.

It appears as though you're not using the link command correctly, i.e. you need to specify a link name e.g.:

ln -s /file_to_link name - where name is name of link!

Good luck!

mr-synapse,

Actually, if you don't put the last parameter, it names the link the same as the physical file. (I thought the same thing - so I tried it - it was the 'new lesson' for the other day)

hi everyone
thanks for your answers!

doing like this ls -ld /usr5/sch
drwxrwxrwx 13 sch other 151552 Mar 23 13:24 /usr5/sch

ls -ld /usr2/hafala
drwxrwxrwx 3 hafala other 10240 Mar 22 14:23 /usr2/acct/hafala

it's very strange because when i'm creating files in /usr2/hafala
the group is ext_cust

When i did id in both directories i got something like this
uid=245(sch) gid=1(other)

however i know what is chmod and i know all the options but
when i did the link it's just dont open the files until i will do chmod commnd which if i need to do it i want that it will be part of the script that i'm running

how to do it (maybe with rlogin to the user that i can chng the mod?)
maybe i should do a hard link ?
please help me here ?

hi every one
did someone fond a solution to my problem
please help me here