well
i'm trying to just run an unedited dbman database and i get this error
DBMan encountered an internal error.

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : unable to open directory in auth_cleanup: ./auth. Reason: No such file or directory
Script Location : db.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00503
Setup File : default.cfg

Form Variables
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Environment Variables
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DOCUMENT_ROOT : /web/sites/228/goatman/www.goatman.f2s.com
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT : */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: ie-ee,en-us;q=0.5
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL : max-age=259200
HTTP_CONNECTION : keep-alive
HTTP_HOST : www.goatman.f2s.com
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
HTTP_VIA : 1.1 server0046.freedom2surf.net:80 (Squid/2.4.STABLE1)
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 24.43.30.245
PATH : /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
QUERY_STRING :
REMOTE_ADDR : 127.0.0.1
REMOTE_PORT : 36305
REQUEST_METHOD : GET
REQUEST_URI : /dbman/db.cgi
SCRIPT_FILENAME : /web/sites/228/goatman/www.goatman.f2s.com/dbman/db.cgi
SCRIPT_NAME : /dbman/db.cgi
SCRIPT_URI : http://www.goatman.f2s.com/dbman/db.cgi
SCRIPT_URL : /dbman/db.cgi
SERVER_ADDR : 127.0.0.1
SERVER_ADMIN : webmaster@goatman.f2s.com
SERVER_NAME : www.goatman.f2s.com
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.0
SERVER_SOFTWARE : Apache/1.3.19 (Unix)

can anyone help me out here?

Two possible factors:

1) You need to specify your FULL Path in the $db_script_path variable in the db.cgi script.
2) You did not create a auth folder in your DBMAN folder and changed its permission to 777.

Regards,

Eliot Lee
http://anthrotech.com/

ty it works now