Is "backups" a reserved word for LC server ?

jbv at souslelogo.com jbv at souslelogo.com
Tue Dec 29 15:37:05 EST 2015


> jbv wrote:
>  > Strange things happen : on a first on-rev account, I have a directory
>  > and sub-sirectory as follows : irev/backups
>  > For months, I have a script in irev that writes temporary files in the
>  > "backups" sub-folder and then deletes them, and everything works fine.
>  >
>  > On a second on-rev account, in the same situation, no file at all gets
>  > written in "backups". If I change the name of that sub-folder to
>  > "DBtemp" or anything else, then everything works normal and the files
>  > get written in it.
>  >
>  > Any idea ?
>
> I don't see "backups" in the Dictionary, but even if it were no keyword
> should affect a string literal.
>
> What are the permissions on the folder?  What do "the result" and
> sysError() tell you when called immediately after the line that fails?
>

I have tried various permissions, especially 755 and 777.
The result and the syserror return exactly the same values, no matter
is the file is written or not :
the result is empty
the syserror returns 2

jbv






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