Can someone please help me? I am very frustrated.

I have uploaded all the files in ACSII mode, read the readme.txt and the FAQ, pointed to the correct Perl 5.04 and sendmail location, and the permissions are set as follows:

cgi-bin/links [dir=755, files=644]
cgi-bin/links/admin [dir=755, files=***]
cgi-bin/links/admin/backup [dir=777, files=666]
cgi-bin/links/admin/data [dir=755, files=666]
cgi-bin/links/admin/data/hits [dir=777, files=666]
cgi-bin/links/admin/data/rates [dir=777, files=666]
cgi-bin/links/admin/Html [dir=755, files=644]
cgi-bin/links/admin/Lwp [dir=755, files=644]
cgi-bin/links/admin/Lwp/Parallel [dir=755, files=644]
cgi-bin/links/admin/Lwp/Parallel/Protocol [dir=755, files=644]
cgi-bin/links/admin/templates [dir=755, files=666]
htdocs/links [dir=777]

But when I run cgi-bin/links/admin/admin.cgi in the browser, I get a stupid 500 Internal Server Error?! I then run admin.cgi in telnet, and I get the following message:

Content-type: text/html

<PRE>

CGI ERROR
==========================================
Error Message : You cant run this script from telnet/shell.
Script Location : /sites/freesources.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00404

Form Variables
-------------------------------------------

Environment Variables
-------------------------------------------
HOME : /usr/local/etc/httpd/sites/freesources.com
HZ : 100
LOGNAME : withheld
MAIL : /var/mail/sources
PATH : /usr/bin:
PWD : /usr/local/etc/httpd/sites/freesources.com
SHELL : /bin/csh
TERM : vt100
TZ : US/Eastern
USER : withheld
_INIT_PREV_LEVEL : S
_INIT_RUN_LEVEL : 3
_INIT_RUN_NPREV : 0
_INIT_UTS_ISA : sparc
_INIT_UTS_MACHINE : sun4u
_INIT_UTS_NODENAME : whsun615
_INIT_UTS_PLATFORM : SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine
_INIT_UTS_RELEASE : 5.7
_INIT_UTS_SYSNAME : SunOS
_INIT_UTS_VERSION : Generic

</PRE>

Do you know what might be wrong? I can post the entire links.cfg if you think that would be helpful.

Actually, I have one idea. I see that most of you guys have the Links scripts and the actual HTML files in the same directory. My server, however, forces me to put all scripts in the CGI-BIN. So my scripts and HTML pages are in separate, "parallel" directories. My scripts are in /sites/freesources.com/cgi-bin/links while my pages are in /sites/freesources.com/htdocs/links. Is that a problem? I have installed a script before that would not work because of this.

Thank you very much. This is really driving me up the wall...

Terence

P.S. The URL is http://www.freesources.com/cgi-bin/links/admin/...