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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Phil Buckley wrote:

> Okay guys, here's a strange one...
> 
> There is a perl script sitting on the RH6 server. The script is chmod'd
> as 775. When the script is opened by a windows user to edit it in WinVi
> the webserver serves up a 500 error. If I attempt to run the script from
> the command line, I get the message that the "text file is busy". If the
> 
> Any ideas what might be causing this strange behavior???

Maybe WinVi is broken?

I would suggest as a workaround, have the user edit a copy of the file,
then put the updated script in place when it is done.

As an aside, I consider it dangerous to edit a file that is in production.
MUCH safer to edit a copy...  Are you using any revision control at all?

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