Hello Chuck, Telnet is a shell access type program. Most "free" services do not offer this option! Curt E. Angeledes Chuck Baslock wrote: > Can you Telnet to all sites? > I tried to Telnet to "netfirms.com" and "xoasis.com" and failed to connect > to either of them. > > Chuck > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Curt E. Angeledes" <ceacmg@efn.org> > To: <ringlinklist@gunnar.cc> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 10:54 PM > Subject: Re: [ringlinklist] Flustrated and don't know what to do. > > > > > Try a telnet session and use the command > > whereis perl > > Good Luck > > > > Tom Hilton wrote: > > > > > I'm getting -- HTTP 500 - Internal server error Internet Explorer -- > from > > > the pl files on my domain server. > > > > > > I've followed all the suggestions found here and other, too. > > > > > > My server says that the first line in my cgi pages has to be something > > > different, than what is currently there. > > > > > > See the following, for an example ! > > > > > > this is the current first line - #!/usr/local/bin/perl > > > this is what they suggest -- #!/cgi-bin/ringlink/ > > > > > > Does this make sense, to anyone ?? I tried it and it still don't work, > any > > > suggestions ?? > > > > > > I've loaded ringlink on three different servers, over a week ago, and I > > > ringlink to work on one server, "netfirms", I can't get the mail to > work, > > > anywhere. > > > > > > Maybe when Gunnar, gets back, he might be able to help me out.