Hi Monks,

I am trying to send a mail and also trying to append the data to a File but i am getting a problem when i saying
Permission is Denied
i have changed the guestbook.txt permission to 777 and also tried but i am getting this prob i hav also tried to change teh user and th e group but that did not work. plz help me out .

  #!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;

print header;
print start_html("Results");

# first print the mail message...

$ENV{PATH} = "/usr/sbin";
open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -odq") or 
   &dienice("Can't fork for sendmail: $!\n");
print MAIL "To: recipient\@cgi101.com\n";
print MAIL "From: nobody\@cgi101.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Form Data\n\n";
foreach my $p (param()) {
    print MAIL "$p = ", param($p), "\n";
}
close(MAIL);

# now write (append) to the file

open(OUT, ">>guestbook.txt") or &dienice("Couldn't open output file: $
+!");
foreach my $p (param()) {
    print OUT param($p), "|";
}
print OUT "\n";
close(OUT);

print <<EndHTML;
<h2>Thank You</h2>
<p>Thank you for writing!</p>
<p>Return to our <a href="index.html">home page</a>.</p>
EndHTML

print end_html;

sub dienice {
    my($errmsg) = @_;
    print "<h2>Error</h2>\n";
    print "<p>$errmsg</p>\n";
    print end_html;
    exit;
}

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