Hi Bernd, > my Squirrelmail worked fine with Suse Linux 9.3. PHP 4, Imap, Postfix > and Appache. After an online update of Suse Linux 9.3 with upgrade > from PHP 4 to PHP 5 I got the following errors: > > 1. Squirrelmail configtest said: > SquirrelMail version: 1.4.10a > Config file version: 1.4.0 > Config file last modified: 18 June 2008 09:52:24 > Checking PHP configuration... > PHP version 5.2.5 OK. > PHP extensions OK. > Checking paths... > > ERROR: Data dir (/var/spool/squirrelmail/data/) does not exist! > > but /var/spool/squirrelmail/data exists!!! > > 2. After login of the Squirrelmail web site I get the errors: > FEHLER > Fehler beim Öffnen von ../data/default_pref > Konnte initiale Einstellungsdatei nicht erstellen! > /var/spool/squirrelmail/data/ sollte vom Benutzer httpd beschreibbar sein > Kontaktieren Sie Ihren Administrator, um Hilfe zu erhalten. > > or in english: > error in opening ../data/default_pref > /var/spool/squirrelmail/data/ should be writeable from user httpd > > but it is. > > I have Suse Linux 9.3 upgraded to Open Suse 10.3 but the errors are > the same. > > Can you help me? Try upgrading to version 1.4.13 , 1.4.10 is quite old. There should be no issues with php4 vs. php5 Roland. ---- Roland Fritz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ----- 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