Re: [ic] [if file] question

["Dan Bergan" <suppressed>]

On 8/6/07, Mike Heins <suppressed> wrote:
> Quoting Dan Bergan (suppressed):
> > On 8/6/07, Mike Heins <suppressed> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > >
> > > > My catalog directory is:
> > > > /var/lib/interchange/catalog
> > > >
> > > > The actual directory is in my httpdocs directory, called "files".  So,
> > > > I created a symbolic link to the "files" directory.  So, now there is
> > > > a sub-directory:
> > > > /var/lib/interchange/catalog/files
> > > > And then I tried: [if type=file term=|files/test.txt|]found![/if]
> > > >
> > > > Can the [if file] follow a symbolic link?
> > >
> > > Yes it can, presuming your file system permissions permit that. It
> > > is just a perl file test.
> > >
> > > Try from the shell:
> > >
> > >         $ touch /var/lib/interchange/catalog/test.txt
> > >
> >
> > As the interchange user:
> > $touch /var/lib/interchange/catalog/files/test.txt
> >
> > this seemed to work -- returned nothing.
> >
> > > Then in the page:
> > >
> > >   [if file test.txt]found! [else] NOT FOUND [/else] [/if]
> >
> > [if type=file term=|files/test.txt|]found! [else] NOT FOUND [/else] [/if]
>
> I just realized you decided to make up your own test syntax -- I told
> you what to put. If what I put works, and what you did didn't, then
> it is in the permissions of your file system.
>
Sorry, Mike.

I thought I was supposed to try this with my symlinked directory.
Exactly as you stated above, it does work fine.  In the symlinked
directory, the "touch" command works, the [if file] does not.

Dan
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