the relative error is this one:
Error opening ../data/default_pref
Could not create initial preference file!
 ../data/ should be writable by user wwwrun
 Please contact your system administrator and report this error.

when i use this setup in my config file:

2.  Data Directory              : /var/squirrelmail/data/
3.  Attachment Directory        : /var/squirrelmail/attach/

the error is this one:

Error opening /var/squirrelmail/data/default_pref
Could not create initial preference file!
 /var/squirrelmail/data/ should be writable by user wwwrun
 Please contact your system administrator and report this error.

is there a possibility that the values in the httpd.conf for

  php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir
  php_admin_value open_basedir

should be set?

my open_basedir for the virtualhost which runs squirrel is the
documentroot and the upload_tmp_dir is not specified...

thanks for helping...........m

On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 10:16 am, p dont think wrote:

From http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/DataPermission

If you have your data directory outside of your htdocs tree (not in the
SquirrelMail directory, which is advisable), make sure NOT to use
relative paths when specifying it in conf.pl; please use the full
absolute path

Have you tried that?

now i installed from cvs 1.4.1-stable, the error
message no longer contains the double slash, but
everything is the same.

my php version is 4.2.2

i tried the 1.5.0-devel too!

strange things.

is there any parameter/module in php that could
cause this error?


On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 03:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


-rwxrwxrwx 1 wwwrun www 186 May 31 16:58
default_pref

weird...


On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 03:32 pm, Jonathan Angliss wrote:

Hello Groups,
On Monday, June 02, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote...

after installing everything correctly i get the following error
message when i try to login:

Error opening /var/squirrelmail/data//default_pref Could not
create
initial preference file!
  /var/squirrelmail/data/ should be writable by user wwwrun
  Please contact your system administrator and report this
error.

my listing says the following for /var/squirrelmail

drwxr-xr-x    4 wwwrun   www          4096 May 31 16:49
squirrelmail

and for /var/squirrelmail/data

drwxrwxrwx 2 wwwrun www 4096 May 31 16:58 data

my apache user is wwwrun.www

i really don't know what i should change now?

What about the file /var/squirrelmail/data/default_pref ? Or the data/default_pref in your squirrelmail directory?





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