That's not just a big hammer, it's potentially a wrecking ball. I confess to using it myself sometimes, but it's much better to work out the correct ownership and protection issues if at all possible.
In my own defense, I normally build/test Perl in my home directory, using a rooted logical. That seemed to be causing problems, so I just tried to do the build in the future home of Perl, which my user doesn't ordinarily have rights to, hence the use of 'set proc' in the first place.
More than likely the correct solution for you would be something like:
$ create/directory dka0:[utils.jp_perltest] $ set file dka0:[utils]jp_perltest.dir/owner=jpeacock
Thanks for the recipe. I am still very much a VMS novice (and I hope to keep it that way ;~); I have enough trouble remembering which command to use between the various conflicting Unix's we have about here (4 or it 5?).
John
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