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add category error
Hi,

when I try to enter a new category I get the following error (remark: $db_use_flock = 0 in links.cfg). Any ideas?:

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : error in add_record. unable to open database: f:\inetpub\wwwroot\e-portal\cgi-bin\admin\data\categories.db.
Reason: Permission denied
Script Location : F:\Inetpub\wwwroot\e-portal\cgi-bin\admin\admin.pl
Perl Version : 5.006

Form Variables
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Description : test
Footer :
Header :
ID : 1
Meta Description :
Meta Keywords :
Name : test
Related :
SubCatStyle : (ALL)1
add_record : Add Category
db : category

Environment Variables
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COMPUTERNAME : ***deleted***
COMSPEC : C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
CONTENT_LENGTH : 148
CONTENT_TYPE : application/x-www-form-urlencoded
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTPS : off
HTTP_ACCEPT : image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET : iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: de
HTTP_CONNECTION : Keep-Alive
HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH : 148
HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE : application/x-www-form-urlencoded
HTTP_HOST : ***deleted***
HTTP_REFERER : http://***deleted***/e-portal/cgi-bin/admin/admin.pl?db=category&add_form=1
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.7 [de] (Win95; I)
INCLUDE : C:\Program Files\Mts\Include
INSTANCE_ID : 1
LIB : C:\Program Files\Mts\Lib
LOCAL_ADDR : 10.1.1.3
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS: 1
OS : Windows_NT
OS2LIBPATH : C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
PATH : C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\Program Files\Mts
PATHEXT : .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.JS
PATH_INFO : /e-portal/cgi-bin/admin/admin.pl
PATH_TRANSLATED : F:\Inetpub\wwwroot\e-portal\cgi-bin\admin\admin.pl
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE: x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER: x86 Family 6 Model 1 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL : 6
PROCESSOR_REVISION : 0109
REMOTE_ADDR : ***deleted***
REMOTE_HOST : ***deleted***
REQUEST_METHOD : POST
SCRIPT_NAME : /e-portal/cgi-bin/admin/admin.pl
SERVER_NAME : ***deleted***
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PORT_SECURE : 0
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.0
SERVER_SOFTWARE : Microsoft-IIS/4.0
SYSTEMDRIVE : C:
SYSTEMROOT : C:\WINNT
USERPROFILE : C:\WINNT\Profiles\Default User
WINDIR : C:\WINNT



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Re: add category error In reply to
Try setting $db_use_flock to 1.

Code:
$db_use_flock = 1;
Flocking does work in NT, just not Windows 95 or most versions of Windows 98 servers.

Regards,

Eliot Lee
Anthro TECH, L.L.C
Web: http://www.anthrotech.com/
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Re: add category error In reply to
Thanks for the fast response. I tried $db_use_flock = 1 with the same result. Do you have any other ideas?