On 8/7/09, Thomas Jensen <tom.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a Debian Lenny 64 bit machine. I originally installed Squirrelmail > using apt-get install squirrelmail which gave me version 1.4.15. By > default, this version is installed to /usr/share/squirrelmail on Debian > Lenny. > > I wanted to upgrade to Squirrelmail version 1.4.19. So I created a new > folder /usr/share/squirrelmail-1.4.19, unpacked the files from the > Squirrelmail website, and ran the conf.pl script to configure. In essence, > this is a brand new installation and not an attempt to upgrade on top of the > original 1.4.15 files. I have mimicked the way Debian installs and just > changed the symlink in the /var/www folder from /usr/share/squirrelmail to > /usr/share/squirrelmail-1.4.19. After some initial testing, the system was > running fine sending and receiving emails. > > I then wanted to install the first new plugin for the newer version. There > are no other plugins installed as this is a fresh Squirrelmail installation. > I followed the instructions in the plugin install file. When I reached the > point where I was to activate the plugin from the conf.pl file, I noticed > that no plugins were shown in the configuration menu. I didn't expect any > plugins to be installed and activated yet, but there also were none shown as > being available. Hard to know what the problem is. If you don't see Perl errors on screen, then it seems like it is probably finding an empty "plugins" directory. From where exactly are you executing conf.pl? From that location, do you see a plugins directory along side the config directory? Are its permissions OK? Does it have plugins in it? Show directory listing snapshots if you think that would help clarify. > Just to double check, I undid my changes and restored the directory > structure to that of the original Debian install that resulted from using > apt-get. When accessing the ./conf.pl program plugins menu, all the > available plugins are listed. > > I have doubled checked permissions and ownership on both the plugins > directory and the files contained within. The permissions and ownership are > identical in the new folder as the default Debian installed plugins folder. > > I also ran the configtest.php utility and no errors were found with the new > installation. > > I looked through the known bugs, FAQs and search the email list with Nabble. > I didn't see anything that described this particular problem. > > I can provide more information on the system if needed. I am running > Apache2, Courier, PHP5, & Postfix; all the latest versions available from > the stable Debian Lenny apt-get cache. > > Thanks, > Tom > -- Paul Lesniewski SquirrelMail Team Please support Open Source Software by donating to SquirrelMail! http://squirrelmail.org/donate_paul_lesniewski.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- 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
