Our intranet uses a perl-based forum (YaBB) for its bulletin boards. Until yesterday, all was fine. Suddenly, we cannot post new content in any form. I did a quick investigate and discoverde that the problem is with new files, that they are not being written. Exisiting files are fine.

My question? Given win 2000 server, IIS5, perl 5.8.8, what possible file/folder permissions are going to prevent a file create? I know this is something permissions based, as the same symptoms are across two parallel servers, and happened, AKAIK at the same time. What modules might be available that give a pretty decent error response (already useing
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
but the internal error trapping is catching everything (by reporting files missing) before it gets to that. ?

In reply to perl 5.8.8 and windows 2000 and file writing... by s_m_b

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