From: Markus Schirp <mbj@...>
Date: 2011-02-08T22:36:13+09:00
Subject: Re: "permission denied" happening too often

You can also try to strace your script. In the logs you'll find the system
call causing the Permission denied...

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 10:32:06PM +0900, Anurag Priyam wrote:
> > I've got Ruby scripts that have been working fine for years now. But,
> > every now and then, one of my scripts errors out with a "permission
> > denied" error. This is very frustrating. Usually, it involves moving a
> > file to either a sister directory or a subdirectory. And, like I said,
> > 99% of the time it works fine. Has anyone else experienced this? It kind
> > of scares me because it's only been happening for me with Ruby. It
> > didn't use to happen with Perl, and, believe, I don't want to go back to
> > Perl.
> 
> Can you post your code? Not sure, but trying to move '.' or '..' on a
> Unix system might cause this problem. Also, did you verify that you
> have right permissions on the files, and directories?
> 
> -- 
> Anurag Priyam
> http://about.me/yeban/
>