[Bioperl-l] Permission denied when using Bio::SearchIO in CGI script

[Ewan Birney]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Marcus Claesson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I want to use Bioperl's blast parser as an cgi script but have run into
> some problems. There is no problem for my cgi script to open and read
> files in my home directory using the classic:
> 
> open(OUT,">/home/marcus/file");
> 
> But when opening a blast output in the same place using:


This is an error in your directory permissions or something (check the 
group read/write on teh file that is created with an ls -l). Bioperl 
does nothing "fancy" about opening files and can't change permissions 
(obviously) of a file.