Ruby Programming Language :: Newbie... help with permissions


	Newbie... help with permissions Hey ya'll. I'm brand new to Ruby. Just a few hours into "Programming Ruby" in fact. I'm loving ruby so far. I can't wait to get into some GTK+ with ruby (since I do a lot of GTK+ stuff in C). I work best by solving real-world problems I have. So... an easy one... deleting some log files on a client's server that are over 30 days old. These log files are named by date and time. So here's what I have: #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- #! /usr/bin/env ruby LOG_DIR = '/var/custom_logs/cache/' def delete_if_old(file) t = (Time.new-(60602430)).strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S").to_i if file.to_i < t File.delete(LOG_DIR + file) end end Dir.foreach(LOG_DIR) { \|f\| delete_if_old f } #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- So, when I replace the delete with a puts, I can see that all the logic is fine. However, when I try to delete I get a permissions error. I'm running the script as a user that does have access to the directory and can delete those files. So, my assumption is that ruby is NOT running as this user (the files can ONLY be deleted by the user, not the group). With my php scripts on this server I use cgiwrap to allow rwx access to my scripts. Is there anything I can do ruby-wise to allow this ruby script to delete this file or do I have to change how the files are logged to allow group access? The error is something like: .. in `delete': Operation not permitted - /var/custom_logs/cache/. (Errno::EPERM) Any help is appreciated. I guess I'm just trying to understand how the script is executed... as what user. May be more of a standard linux permissions questions but still seems odd to me that the user that's executing the script can delete the files but eh script itself cannot. -- - Micah Carrick Developer - http://www.micahcarrick.com GTK+ Forums - http://www.gtkforums.com On Jun 4, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Micah Carrick wrote: > Hey ya'll. Hey. > I'm brand new to Ruby. Welcome. This is my first post to this list. So we're on a par. > def delete_if_old(file) > t = (Time.new-(60602430)).strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S").to_i You might want Time.now.to_i + ( 60 * 60 * 24 * 30 ) > if file.to_i < t You're calling to_i on a String here. I bet that "if" clause always hits. > File.delete(LOG_DIR + file) > end > end > Dir.foreach(LOG_DIR) { \|f\| delete_if_old f } > #--------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- Is it possible that the first time delete_if_old is called, it's passed "." (dot)? Okay-- that was my bad. I wasn't filtering out '.' and '..' Here's the code that works: #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- #! /usr/bin/env ruby LOG_DIR = '/var/custom_logs/cache/' def delete_if_old(file) t = (Time.new-(60602430)).strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S").to_i if file.to_i < t && file != '.' && file != '..' puts 'Deleting: '+file File.delete(LOG_DIR + file) end end Dir.foreach(LOG_DIR) { \|f\| delete_if_old f } #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Now, if anybody has any suggestions as to coding conventions or things I should do differntly I'm all ears. Just because this works, doesn't mean I don't want to know how to do it the way ruby programmers conventionally would approach this. - Micah Carrick Developer - http://www.micahcarrick.com GTK+ Forums - http://www.gtkforums.com - Hide quoted text - Micah Carrick wrote: > Hey ya'll. I'm brand new to Ruby. Just a few hours into "Programming > Ruby" in fact. I'm loving ruby so far. I can't wait to get into some > GTK+ with ruby (since I do a lot of GTK+ stuff in C). > I work best by solving real-world problems I have. So... an easy > one... deleting some log files on a client's server that are over 30 > days old. These log files are named by date and time. So here's what I > have: > #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > #! /usr/bin/env ruby > LOG_DIR = '/var/custom_logs/cache/' > def delete_if_old(file) > t = (Time.new-(60602430)).strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S").to_i > if file.to_i < t > File.delete(LOG_DIR + file) > end > end > Dir.foreach(LOG_DIR) { \|f\| delete_if_old f } > #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > So, when I replace the delete with a puts, I can see that all the > logic is fine. However, when I try to delete I get a permissions > error. I'm running the script as a user that does have access to the > directory and can delete those files. So, my assumption is that ruby > is NOT running as this user (the files can ONLY be deleted by the > user, not the group). With my php scripts on this server I use cgiwrap > to allow rwx access to my scripts. > Is there anything I can do ruby-wise to allow this ruby script to > delete this file or do I have to change how the files are logged to > allow group access? > The error is something like: > ... in `delete': Operation not permitted - /var/custom_logs/cache/. > (Errno::EPERM) > Any help is appreciated. I guess I'm just trying to understand how the > script is executed... as what user. May be more of a standard linux > permissions questions but still seems odd to me that the user that's > executing the script can delete the files but eh script itself cannot.