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"); -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500