Hi - I am trying to set up a discussion board and am having problems. I have an html file call bbentry.html which allows the user to enter name, email and comments. It calls a script bb.pl and then this writes to bb.html. I have included the whole script (sorry if it is too much info) I get an error message that it can not find the temporary file but I am not sure what is wrong. Then if I run it again, I get Discussion Board in use. Please try again later. Can you help?? Thank you in advance. Alice 
#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe

# ensure all fatals go to browser during debugging and set-up
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';


require "c:\\webserver\\osarr.org\\www\\cgi-bin\\cgi-lib.pl";

&ReadParse;

print &PrintHeader;

$url="http://www.osarr.org/member/bboard/bb.html";
$bbfile="c:\\webserver\\osarr.org\\www\\member\\bboard\\bb.html";
unless (-e $bbfile)
{
print <<"PrintTag";
<html><body>
<p>$bbfile is not found- something is wrong</p>
</body></html>

$tempfile="c:\\webserver\\osarr.org\\www\\member\\bboard\\bb.html";

if (($in{'name'} eq "") ||
($in{'email'} eq "") ||
($in{'comments'} eq ""))
{
print <<"PrintTag";
<html><body>
Please complete all fields before submitting your message to the OSARR
+ Discussion Board.
<br><br>Please complete:<br>
PrintTag
if ($in{'name'} eq "")
{
print "\n Your Name\n";
}
if ($in{'email'} eq "")
{
print "\n Your Email Address\n";
}
if ($in{'comments'} eq "")
{
print "\n Your Comments\n";
}
print "</body></html>\n";
exit(0);
}

if (-e "glock.fil")
{
print <<"PrintTag";
<html><body>
The OSARR Discussion Board is in use. Please try again later.
</body></html>
PrintTag
exit(0);
}

open(LOCKFILE, ">glock.fil");
open(BBFILE,"$bbfile") ||die "Can't find the discussion board.\n";
@indata=<BBFILE>;
close(BBFILE);
open(TEMPFILE,">$tempfile") || die "Can't find this temporary file wha
+t is wrong. \n";

foreach $i (@indata)
{
chomp($i);

#copy line to temp file

print TEMPFILE "$i\n";

#insert new form data below placeholder
if ($i =~ /<!--BEGINNING-->/i)
{
print TEMPFILE "<p><a href=\"mailto:$in{'email'}\">";
print TEMPFILE "$in{'name'}";
print TEMPFILE "</a>";
print TEMPFILE "<br>";
print TEMPFILE "$in{'comments'}</p><hr>\n\n";
}

}

close (TEMPFILE);

rename("$bbfile", "$bbfile.old");
rename("$tempfile", "$bbfile");

#close and unlink lock.fil
close (LOCKFILE);
unlink("glock.fil");

print <<"PrintTag";
<html><body>
Your entry has been posted to the OSARR Discussion Board<Br><br>
View <a href="$url">OSARR Discussion Board</a>
</body></html>
PrintTag

#endprogram

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