guestbook problems

"Skivling" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:e424r0$l9b$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> This might be the wrong forum but anyway...
> I got a flashguestbook from flashkit and modified it for my needs. However
> an
> error message aperes when message is posted. The readme says:
> "NOTE you MUST change the CHMOD levels on the entry.txt file to 766"
> This is greek to me. How do I change it???
>
> Thanx! /Finn, Sweden
>

CHMOD stands for "Change File Modes"
766 is an octal representation of the permissions that need to be set for
the file.

Basically 766 makes a file
Executable, readable and writable by User <-- owner of file
Readable, writable by the Group <-- group of file
Readable, writable by Other <-- Everyone else, including the user accessing
your file via the web server.

To change this, you can probably use your FTP program. Try to change
permissions on the file entry.txt to match rules above. Almost every FTP
program I have ever used had this option.

Or if you have command line access on a *nix machine you can just type
chmod 766 entry.txt

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