Thank you very much nice people, I am making progres. :)

That took care of that, it sure advanced a lot. I am now at:

Links Manager: Building Pages
Building Pages
Pages built on 23-Nov-2000 at 20:00:29
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Backing up database . . .
Backup exists for today.. Skipping
Done.

Building URL Index . . .
Done.

Updating New and Popular Records . . .
What's New Cutoff: 14 days
Popular Cutoff: 1868 hits
Updating record: 15, marking as popular (1934).
Updating record: 73, marking as popular (2201).
Updating record: 88, marking as popular (2559).
Updating record: 109, marking as popular (2996).
Updating record: 136, marking as popular (2358).
Updating record: 138, marking as popular (1869).
Updating record: 179, marking as popular (2182).
Couldn't rename! Had to copy. Strange: Permission denied
Done.

Updating ratings ..
Couldn't rename! Had to copy. Strange: Permission denied
Done.

Loading Category Information . . .
Done.

Gathering Category and Link information . . .
Done

Building Home Pages . . .
Subcategories: 8
Total Links: 217
Opening page: /home/leon/public_html/links/index.html

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : unable to open home page: /home/leon/public_html/links/index.html. Reason: Permission denied
Script Location : /home/leon/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/nph-build.cgi
Perl Version : 5.00503

I do have the index.html in links directory and it's 644.

What do you think is the problem?
TIA