Bug: a better error message if the log file is unwriteable

Motivation

If somebody screws up the permissions on the logfile directory, then when trying to save a topic, it will appear to just hang.

Description

Dies with an error message if the logfile is unwriteable.

Documentation

None.

Examples

None.

Implementation

This is a very simple patch, changing only one line of code.

The error message that I chose might not have the exact wording that you would choose

It looked to me from a casual glance that there might be other opportunities to give meaningful error messages if files couldn't be written to.

Note: Patch is attached as https://www.twiki.org:443/p/pub/Codev/BetterErrorMessageIfLogFileUnwriteable/BetterErrorMessageIfLogFileUnwriteable.diff .

The patch is against the HEAD of CVS of Store.pm as of today, 9 June 2004, version 1.89.

Discussion:

Pretty simple:

 open( FILE, ">>$filename");

 open( FILE, ">>$filename") || die "The web server can't write to the file $filename.\n\nThis error is";