Can anyone help me understand what the following error message means?

Roy Ornelas


CGI ERROR
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Error Message : error in add_record. unable to open database: /cgi/links/admin/data/links.db.
Reason: ACL/SRL denies write access
Script Location : /cgi/links/admin/admin.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00404

Try chmodding the data directory to 777 and chmod links.db to 666

If that doesn't work then contact your host.

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Ok. Please forgive me as I am a true newbie to this.

When you say:
Try chmodding the data directory to 777 and chmod links.db to 666.

am I to understand that I am to log into the Shell Account?

If so, then I am truly lost because although I know how to log onto the Shell Account, I dont know any commands after that.

When I log on I get the following:

VDE$:_

the "_" is a blinking cursor. I am assuming that it is waiting for a command. So how to I change to the data directory from here? And how to I access the links.db as well?

Please forgive me as this is all new to me.



Roy Ornelas
A true newbie

No...he means CHMOD links.db to 666, and the /data/ folder to 777 (in FTP)

Andy

webmaster@ace-installer.com
http://www.ace-installer.com

from telnet...
chmod 777 data
cd data
chmod 666 links.db