[thelist] Problem with the Unix 'du' command via perlscript

[Tony Frasketi]

Hi Anthony
Thanks for the quick response.

I'm running the perl script both at the Unix command line AND from a web
browser.

For a particular directory I am getting a result from the du command
executed from the Unix command line as 85,427,200 bytes.

When I execute my Perl script from the Web, I get 83,250,176 bytes...
about 2 megs difference...

Are you implying that this differnce may be due to the number of files
owned by me (TONYSF and the number of files owned by NOBODY???  

Tony Frasketi

Anthony Baratta wrote:
> 
> At 02:46 PM 6/16/2003, Tony Frasketi wrote:
> >I'm having a problem with the results of the Unix 'du' command in that I
> >get different results when I execute the 'du' command from the Unix
> >command line...
> >
> >and when I execute the 'du' command from a Perl script using backtic
> >statement.
> 
> Are you running your Perl script via the command line or via your web
> service?? Many web servers run a nobody:nobody and with those different
> permission you can get different results.
> 
> --
> Anthony Baratta
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