On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:13:55PM -0500, Nate Carlson wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Jay Kline wrote: > > I am writing a perl script that acts like the passwd program, but is intended for > > my virtual pop user database. Anyway, I cant seem to find out why I cant write to > > a file. I will include the snipit, but I would also like to know how to debug > > these problems. They have poped up before, and it seems very binary, it either > > works or it dosnt. Is there some way to find out WHY it dosnt work? > > > > Here is the snipit: > > > > open PASSWD, '>' . $passw_file or die "There was an error opening the password > > file.\n"; > > Never seen a file opened that way, try: > > open(PASSWD,">$file"); His syntax is not advisable but it's legal. He is calling open with a list of arguments. What I am not sure about is what happens when $passw_file is "." or something. florin -- "If it's not broken, is because you are not fixing it enough." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4