still need help: Tlink can't open socket if started via web?

[paulc@shell11.ba.best.com]

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-- hi.  still stuck on this issue; any help would be appreciated. --

I'm trying to help install minivend on an ISP with a friend.  After the
initial install, the cgi program (vlink, in this case) wouldn't start.   The
ISP's "Internal Server Error" page says, in part, 
    "The CGI being executed cannot be a setuid or setgid program.
      The target username and group to execute as, must match the username
      and group owning the directory."

When I changed the file permissions from rwsr-xr-x to rwxr-xr-x then the cgi
file actually executed and gave me "We're sorry, the MiniVend server is
unavailable...."  Per the manual, I then tried (temporarily) setting
etc/socket to 666 permissions, which also didn't work.

Then we decided to try Tlink.    In the current state of the system,
simple.cgi is Tlink.   If I start the server in debug mode and then log in
and do
        ./simple.cgi  junkparms
I can see that it opens the socket and actually reaches the server, which
generates various error messages because it doesn't like my parameters.

However, if simple.cgi is started from the web (eg. go to the web page and
click on a link going to   /simple.cgi/browse  in our domain), I again get
"We're sorry, the MiniVend server is unavailable...."     So, apparently,
the socket open fails when simple.cgi is started by someone other than the
owner.   
    
Does my interpretation seem accurate, and does anyone have a suggestion?

   Thanks.
         Paul Czyzewski

ps.   This is on a box running Solaris 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.5.1) and perl version
5.004_04 built for sun4-solaris.

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