Linux and file creation/copying

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bruce Easton (Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:03:44 -0400):
[...]
> (The rest of the fp 'executables' are all filepro:group 4755,
> but **weirdly**, when I ran the 'setperms' program just now AFTER
> the testing results & error messages received that I show below,
> all the fp 'executables' go to 755 instead of 4755 - but in any
> event I get the same behavior from ddefine/fpcopy).

You have an older version of the setperms script.  Swap the "chown" and
"chmod" lines so that chown is first.

[... fp/lib directory ...]
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root    group  37092 Mar 30  2006 makedir

Was it this way before running the old setperms?  It needs to be 4755,
not 755.
[...]
> *** A System Error Has Occurred ***
> Cannot open file.
> /appl/filepro/test/map: No such file or directory
>
>> Does the new directory get created?
>
> No - the directory for 'test' is not created.
>
>> If not, what happens if you manually
>> create the directory first?
>
> Then it works fine.

That's a sign that makedir isn't able to create the directory, typically
because it's not root/4755, but the rest is fine.  Fix setperms and re-run
it.

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