From: Logan Capaldo Date: 2006-06-14T07:22:13+09:00 Subject: Re: Logger and file permissions On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:39 AM, Jeff Pritchard wrote: > I have tried to set up a group that > includes ruby, the script, and the logger library as users Um, groups include users (logins). A group or user is not per-file/ executable (unless you have setuid or setgid set). Are we maybe confused about the Unix security model? You need to run ruby as a user with access to that directory.