John,

though it's been a few years since I had my programmers badge, but isn't 
a FSERR50 a nonexistant account? In which case you may have a badly 
formed open.

Or perhaps another problem.....


john pitman wrote:
> I have a funny one.
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> A user is running a program that creates files in a posix dir - /xyz say. A
> batch job under a different logon then ftps the files to another system, and
> renames the files to another posix dir, say    /abc. This means the /abc
> files are listed as created by the batch job user.
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> Next day, user runs same program again. This checks for existence of files
> in   /abc dir, and all the opens fail, with errno = 50. Even if I do  a
> chmod 777 on the first file, the open still fails.even though I can see the
> file as the session user, and I can cat it to the terminal..
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> What am I missing here please?
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> If I run the program as MGR, it all works fine..
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> Thanks,
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> john
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