I am not especially familiar with PHP, so it seemed like a good idea to set "safe_mode = on" in /etc/php.ini - in case anything that was installed by default bit me when I enabled the webserver, and it seems like good practice. I was just trying to debug a SquirrelMail problem (the recent 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2 update in CENTOS/RHEL is buggy) and tried to run the installed version on my desktop to compare. I got the error Error opening /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/default_pref Could not Create initial preference file! /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/ should be writable by user apache but it is : drwx------ 2 apache apache 4096 Jan 19 15:17 /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/ /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/default_pref -> ../../../../etc/squirrelmail/default_pref -rw-r----- 1 root apache 83 Sep 2 16:46 /etc/squirrelmail/default_pref https://localhost/webmail/src/configtest.php says everything is fine, though users can't change their timezone After a lot of messing around I found that, with PHP Safe Mode on, file_exists() returns false if e.g. /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/foo.pref belongs to apache, but true if it belongs to some other user, e.g. root. This seems totally bizarre to me - I would expect it to be the other way around if anything. As I say, I don't know a lot about PHP. - Is safe_mode broken to the point of unusability ? - If not, is there a way to get SquirrelMail to run with it on ? - If so, perhaps configtest.php should flag it. (OK, 1.4.17 does) SquirrelMail version: 1.4.8-5.el5_2.2 Config file version: 1.4.0 PHP version 5.1.6 Apache 2.2.3 -- In SquirrelMail 1.4.17-1.fc9, on a Fedora Core 9 machine configtest.php does flag safe_mode, saying "double check data and attachment directory ownership, etc!" But I get the same error at login, and the same odd file_exists behaviour. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) Network Security Manager ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ----- 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
