On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:48:13 -0400, dwnek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >Hello, > >Our production environment has been running Squirrelmail 1.4.19, vpopmail, >Courier IMAP, PHP 5.2.9 on RHEL 5 without any issues. We are running this >on two servers behind a cisco CSS load balancer and both with a >/home/vpopmail NFS mount to a common shared storage so that there is only >one common set of Maildirs and one common location for vpopmaiI. >Squirrelmail is installed to /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/webmail. > >Here are the pertinent config settings: > >General Options >1. Data Directory : /var/local/squirrelmail/data/ (sym >linked to /home/vpopmail/webmail/data/) > ># ls -l /var/local/squirrelmail/data >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jun 23 11:15 /var/local/squirrelmail/data -> >/home/vpopmail/webmail/data/ Silly question, but why not just tell SquirrelMail to look in /home/vpopmail/webmail/data instead of using a symlink? > ># ls -l /var/local/squirrelmail/data/default_* >-rw------- 1 daemon daemon 23607 Sep 4 13:43 >/var/local/squirrelmail/data/default_abook >-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 666 Aug 14 09:10 >/var/local/squirrelmail/data/default_pref > >Install Process: >1. Renamed the Squirrelmail root web directory from webmail to >webmail-1.4.19 >2. Untarred Squirrelmail 1.4.20-RC2 and named it webmail >3. Ran conf.pl from webmail/config and webmail-1.4.19/config in two >separate windows ensuring all of the entries are set the same. > >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 > >I then tried to change the config to point directly to >/home/vpopmail/webmail/data/ and received the same error with the new >location identified. >I then removed the symbolic link and placed the default and user X pref's >and abook files in /var/local/squirrelmail/data and was able to login >successfully. This hints that either the permissions altered, or you had some other policies applied maybe via a .htaccess file? >I don't like this because then the files will get out of sync between the >two servers behind the load balancer. I found the ".." in the error to be >somewhat interesting. Preference databases are handy for this :) > >Thank you for your support ! >Derek > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >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 -- Jonathan Angliss <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
