# Permission denied - . (Errno::EACCES) error

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/permission-denied-errno-eacces-error/124430>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 28, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/permission-denied-errno-eacces-error/124430 "2007-12-28T17:13:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![shinji](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@shinji](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shinji)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/permission-denied-errno-eacces-error/124430/1 "2007-12-28T17:13:06Z")

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Dir.open(‘Logs’) do |dir|  
dir.each do |file|  
puts file  
File.open(file).each\_line do |entry|  
puts entry  
if /Test Condition Passed/ =~ entry  
passcount += 1  
#puts “passcount reached”  
elsif /Test Condition Failed/ =~ entry  
failcount += 1  
#puts “failcount reached”  
end  
end  
end  
end

the above piece of code when I run it from eclipse generates this error:

C:/workspace/CV\_Auto/grapher.rb:10:in `initialize': Permission denied - . (Errno::EACCES) from C:/workspace/CV_Auto/grapher.rb:10:in`open’  
from C:/workspace/CV\_Auto/grapher.rb:10  
from C:/workspace/CV\_Auto/grapher.rb:8:in `each' from C:/workspace/CV_Auto/grapher.rb:8 from C:/workspace/CV_Auto/grapher.rb:7:in`open’  
from C:/workspace/CV\_Auto/grapher.rb:7

I’m perhaps being dim (not the first time), but can’t see where I’m  
going wrong?

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**Author:** ![shinji](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@shinji](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shinji)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/permission-denied-errno-eacces-error/124430/2 "2007-12-28T17:22:02Z")

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think I’ve just answered my own question:

added some puts statements and then remembered this is a Subversion  
aware directory, so the directory .svn is probably the one causing the  
problem.