On Jan 29, 2008 7:16 AM, Dennis Gaida <dennisgaida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running on shared webhosting and my webhost recently updated to a > newer Confixx version, since then I am having many permission problems > with SquirrelMail (and other packages). > Every so often I get the famous "could not copy > data/myusername123.pref to (data/myusername123.pref.tmp" message. The > only way to circumvent this is to set the myusername123.pref (and with > that, all other preference files of all the users) to CHMOD 777 (which > is unsafe?). My webhost tells me that it's all normal and this is the > correct way to go: Files 777, Folder 777. I don't agree with them but > anyways. Anyone who tells you something like that does not deserve your business. Period. The only reason I can imagine they'd say that, beside utter and complete stupidity, is that they have a very convoluted hosting system that will only work with your applications if you use 777 permissions on the application data directories. This is unacceptable IMO. > Looking at the Owners I see that most of the files are owned by: > myusername, whereas the .tmp files are owned by wwwrun, group apache. > > I guess that's where my problem is coming from, I just hope somebody > can tell me what else I can do (with only FTP access). Should I really > set all files to 777 (cannot change the .tmp files anyways because " > 550 web287p1.pref.tmp: Operation not permitted")? Or what to tell my > webhost to change - so far they tell me 10000000s of other users have > no problems? Read: http://squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-3.html#ss3.1 As well as the following section. If you cannot execute the ownership/permission change commands listed therein, you have to ask you host to do them for you. If they cannot or refuse, then you need to find a new hosting solution. > My system specs (as far as I can gather them without SSH access): > SquirrelMail Version: 1.4.9a > Plugins: HTML Mail 2.3, Image Buttons 1.3, Preview Pane 1.2, Reply > Buttons 1.0, Show Thumb 1.05, view_as_html 3.7a > System: Debian 3.1 > PHP Version: 5.2.5 > IMAP: IMAP4REV1 (no clue what server) > SMTP: Also no clue > Apache: 1.3.33 > > Sincerely, > Dennis Gaida > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
