Please point me in the direction to find the cause of this error.

I have used EveryAuction before and want to move to your program so I am fairly familar with set up but I am no way expert.

For testing I moved subdirectory to web accessible area to eliminate any problems = Multimedia file viewing and clickable links are available for registered members only!!  You need to Login or Register!!
. Then set up subdirectories auction/closed, auction/userreg, auction/auction_pics and ckmod 777 for now. I modified eConfig161.pl to correspond to the host server parameters.

I followed everything within instructions but I receive this error msg:

[Bad File Descriptor]

Could someone direct me to the location of problem - which I am sure is something simple and stupid I have done.

Thanks

Thanks.
Info requested:

A. Location on host server: www.domainname/cgibin/eAuction161/
program: eAuction.pl
subdir: /auction_pics (2 gifs), /closed, /userreg

B. Running under this .htaccess located in [ /cgibin ]
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
AddHandler server-parsed .html .htm
AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi

C. Config section 1-2 of eConfig161.pl located in [ /eAuction161 ]

#-#############################################
# Config-Section-01
#-#############################################

# The name of your servers cgi-bin directory
   $config{'cgi_dir'}            = 'cgibin'; # Default for most servers
   
# The cgi-bin subdirectory where your eAuction.pl will be stored
   $config{'auction_dir'}      = 'eAuction161';
   
# The Path to a 'NON-WEBACCESSABLE' directory of your system
# Maybe you have to chmode it if you use your own setting

  $config{'get_path'}              = 0; # Set this from 1 to 0 if you want to use your own setting  
  $config{'basepath'}              = '=/u/web/sbectr';

***I tried setting 'basepath' and 'mailprog' manually and using code - same error = bad descriptor.
***I have verified permissions for subdir and files

Thanks for your help.