David, > 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'). SM doesn't care who runs the web server. Some plugins might. SM itself just needs you to set permissions correctly on things like the data and attachment directories. > 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'. I see. This is not exactly true. It is guessing. You don't have the posix extension enabled, so it can't tell who is running the web server. I will change this so it doesn't make you think it knows something which is wrong. Thanks. > 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. No, the problem has nothing to do with the user. SM is simply trying to write to the data directory and cannot (and the error message was misleading (which I have now changed). You said you set that directory to 777 but maybe $data_dir is not pointing to the same directory you changed. > 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?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf ----- 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
