> I am  running squirrelmail 1.4.0 on a webserver running RedHat 7.3   I
> have been able to install squirrelmail and sign in, send
> (w/attachments), receive etc...  However I continually get the following
> message when trying to use plugins such as calendar, abook_take etc..
>
> Error opening ../../data/default_pref
> Could not create initial preference file!
> ../data/ should be writable by user nobody
>
> I have chmod 777 the squirrelmail/data/ and subsequent folders, but
> continue to get the error.  How do I give user "nobody" write access???
> Is this an issue with RedHat?  My Host?

didn't Chris say something about his calendar?  ;>

please read this

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

it may or may not be "nobody" in your case -- it's the user that runs your
webserver... another popular one is "apache" but you need to check your
own system to be sure.  as for how to give access,

  $ man chown






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