On Sep 10, 2009, at 3:48 PM, dwnek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Error: > 1. When logging in as user X, I receive the following error: > > Error opening ../data/default_pref > Could not create initial preference file! > /var/local/squirrelmail/data/ should be writable by user daemon > Please contact your system administrator and report this error. > > You can see above that the default_pref file is owned by > daemon:daemon with > rw perms on both owner and group That's not what it's complaining about. It's trying to create a _new_ file in /home/vpopmail/webmail/data/, the target of your symlink from / var/local/squirrelmail/data. Did you verify the permissions on *that directory* as indicated? Can you touch a file on that NFS mount as the daemon user? -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
