Re: [cobalt-users] Any one running Matt Wrights message boards???

["Toby Miller" <tobymiller@xxxxxxxx>]

Debbie,

Overall everything you have seems right....

> Are we talking here even files that the script may write to??
> data files are called in almost every script.. for instance the message

Most scripts require specific permissions to be set on the data files and
the directories that they reside in....    666 seems correct, but I have
seen
some scripts (Discus Pro - the discussion board I use - I think) that
require more.
What I usually do to eliminate permissions as a problem is set all
of the data files high (777) until I get the script working and then reduce
the
permissions as far as I can until the script stops working.

> boards.cgi config stuff:
> #!/usr/bin/perl

Checked my script.  Not sure what the difference is but I have:
"#!/usr/bin/perl --" on all of my scripts.  I remember reading somewhere
(this list maybe) that the -- solves some problems with certain scripts.
I just do it by default...


> $mail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";

All of your paths (including sendmail) are correct and the same as my
scripts, and
the HTML calls to the script look fine too.     Try the change to the perl
path, and retesting
with the permissions set high.  See what that does.  In the mean time I will
retrieve a copy of my script from my server and e-mail it to you offlist
tomorrow morning.

Regards,

Toby Miller