Filehandle operations
  Instead of chown/chmod, use fchown/fchmod, which operate on filehandles, instead of file names.
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;
    use POSIX;
    require "syscall.ph";
    
    ...
    
    open NEWFILE, ">$file";
    print NEWFILE @someinformation;
    syscall( &SYS_fchown, fileno(NEWFILE), -1, $WEB_GID) or die;
    syscall( &SYS_fchmod, fileno(NEWFILE), 0640) or die;  
    close NEWFILE;

Copyright 2003, Bri Hatch of Onsight, Inc.

Presented at SPUG, 2003.

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