Seems everyone is having "privileges" problems. <G>

I got a message from someone who attempted to use a form on my website
and got an error message.  I tried and got a 405 also.  grrrrr ...
I checked to make certain the .pl was where it was supposed to be, I
checked the page code to make certain it hadn't gotten flummoxed, and
finally wrote my ISP techies to see if maybe path to perl had changed 
on their servers or ???

Techie found, after checking everything else, Apache made its perl more
secure -- defaulting to being willing to accept scripts only from
directories /cgi-bin ... and I was using a different directory name for
my scripts. But since it is Apache, and since I've got a really good
"Linux Very Competent" techie who helps me, he was able to change the
"acceptable" default to include my script directory, and *only* my
directory, of another name.

I'd rather have a secure ISP that requires a little work now and then,
than being stuck with who knows what vulnerabilities that some of the
other options offer. <G>  And you have my permission to quote me. 

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On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:55:47 +0000, Michael Polak wrote:

> arachne-digest should work again now, i fixed the privileges
> (we were reinstalling system on server - security focus...)

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