Re: mhastart.pl errors

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Gwinn wrote:
> I then created a directory for '/mherrors' and set it to 666.

That presupposes the directory '/mherrors' at the root of the file
system, which I assume is not correct. Haven't you rather created a
directory in the document root of your user account? In that case you
should state the *full* path the the directory.

Furthermore, assuming that you are on Unix or Linux, the file
permission 666 for a directory is not sufficient to allow a CGI script
to create files in it. Depending on the server configuration, you need
at least 700, maybe 777.

> Running the program now told me it could not open the
> '/mherrors/ERRORLOG.TXT' file. ("No such file or directory" was the
> error.)

That's because you hadn't stated the correct path. (If the path had
been correct it would have complained about the permission instead.)

> I then created a zero-byte file in /mherrors entitled ERRORLOG.TXT
> and set it to 666.

That's an unnecessary step.

HTH

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