Problem with FileExists on Ubuntu

[Railor]

Hi everybody!
I'm currently working on a SubAdmin script, which uses FileExists. On my Windows server the following snippet works fine

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if FileExists('SubAdmin/Admins/'+filterFilename(Name)+'.txt') then
begin
//...
end else
writeConsole(ID,'Account doesn''t exists!',$FF0000);
//...
but if I try the same script, with the same files on an ubuntu server, it always says "Account doesnt exists".
I tried it also without filterFilename, but the same result.
Anyboy have a idea?

[BombSki]

Fileexist is known to have some compatibility issues. these posts might help you

http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=22962.msg268367#msg268367
http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=25080.msg296813#msg296813
http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=24826.msg294559#msg294559

[Railor]

YES! That's it!
Thanks a lot 

[chrisgbk]

Actually, I've found out the problem has to do with paths; under Linux (for security reasons) the current path is never used when opening files, which means that the file you open should be either './SubAdmin/Admins/...' or the fully qualified path to the file ('/home/<name>/soldatserver/SubAdmin/Admins/...' or equivilant) depending on how you start the server. Windows always searches the current path when opening files.

The reason everything else works without proper paths is because the FileExists function is mapped directly to Delphi's FileExists function, and the other file functions are wrappers around the functions because they require additional processing; the wrappers append the actual path to the server onto the files path.


This will be fixed in the next server release (which will probably coincide with 1.5.0)

[Railor]

Yeah, I got also problems with ReadFile, I will try it with

'/home/<name>/soldatserver/SubAdmin/Admins/...'

Thanks a lot, too.