When i paste this code under like so

sub procreg {

if ($config{'regdir'}) {
umask(000); # UNIX file permission junk
mkdir("$config{'regdir'}", 0777) unless (-d "$config{'regdir'}");

mkdir("$config{'basepath'}$config{'newestmember'}", 0777) unless (-d "$config{'newestmember'}");

Then i get error

Any ideas

mkdir("$config{'regdir'}", 0777) unless (-d "$config{'regdir'}");

The software has created the User Registry Directory when it started a user registration for the first time. After this first process, it's not longer required to do the same routine everytime someone registers or changes his reg-content.

1.check if the directory exists
2.create a directory, if it does not exist already.

So, if you have a running auction with 1 registered user, you can either quote all the line with a '#' or even remove the line I have displayed above.

So, just try this:

if ($config{'regdir'}) {
umask(000); # UNIX file permission junk
mkdir("$config{'basepath'}$config{'newestmember'}", 0777) unless (-d "$config{'newestmember'}");

...depending, how you have directed your path:
$config{'newestmember'}

so, possibly to write a FULL path command to direct $config{'newestmember'} like by example:

config.pl Entry:

$config{'newestmember'} = '/your/server/path/cgi-bin/auction/auctiondata/newestmember/';

then use:

mkdir("$config{'newestmember'}", 0777) unless (-d "$config{'newestmember'}");

Homer