Paul, I'm either crazy (possible), or I think squirrelmail 1.5 svn (rev. 13613) is having trouble distinguishing between apache running as user 'http' and not 'httpd'. I have a number of installs on openSuSE where user and group are wwwrun:www and everything is fine there. I am working on an install on archlinux where the apache(httpd) user and group are http:http (no 'd'). Upon login, the following error is received: ERROR Could not create initial preference file! /usr/local/share/sqmail/data/ should be writable by user httpd. Please contact your system administrator and report this error. Go to the login page Note: sqmail is looking for user 'httpd'. phpinfo() and /etc/passwd and /etc/group show apache2 is running as: User/Group http(33)/33. Just to check, I set all permissions under /usr/local/share/sqmail to 0777 (crazy - world writable permissions) and still, squirrelmail will not start, but gives the same error: ERROR Could not create initial preference file! /usr/local/share/sqmail/data/ should be writable by user httpd. Please contact your system administrator and report this error. Go to the login page Again, squirrelmail is trying to write as user 'httpd' not 'http' and I guess squirrel is checking the user and group and finding neither is 'httpd' and stopping. Let me know if I can run tests or try a patch for you. I'm more than happy to do it. I can't explain why it runs fine on openSuSE with user/group wwwrun/www , but won't run on arch even with the data dir set to 0777 with user/group of http?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ----- 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
