Robin Stent wrote: > > Thanks for your reply > >>You should use a full non-relative path, and the location should >>ideally be out of the web server's reach. > > Ok I've put the data directory also in /var/local and used an absolute > path > >>If that's true, then SM is probably not seeing them. Show the actual >>config/config.php entries for each setting and show the actual long >>listing (ls -l) for each directory. > > $data_dir = '/var/local/squirrelmail/data/'; > $attachment_dir = '/var/local/squirrelmail/attach/'; > > [root@binarybreeze squirrelmail]# cd /var/local/squirrelmail > [root@binarybreeze squirrelmail]# ls -lh > total 8.0K > drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4.0K Aug 20 15:01 attach > drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4.0K Aug 21 13:12 data > >>Also you didn't show the actual error. >>We can't do anything for you without the exact error message. > > For attachments the error is: Could not move/copy file. File not attached > For user prefs the error is: Preference file, > /var/local/squirrelmail/data/rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, could not be > opened. > Test your PHP settings. http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/TestPHPSettings Show local safe_mode, open_basedir and upload_tmp_dir setting values. If you use SELinux, make sure that you have same issues when it is set to permissive mode. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SM-Installation-permission-issues-tp19085969p19089390.html Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ----- 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