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Old 06-09-2009
permissions to create log file from script
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.
# 2  
Old 06-09-2009
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.

Code:
echo "message" >> out.log

and see if it works.
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Old 06-09-2009
It looks as permission problem. Check the permission of directoty where you run.
ls -l .
# 4  
Old 06-09-2009
Maybe, u'r not the owner of that file. You can use "chmod +w" to modify the permission of the file
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