RE: [SM-USERS] Preference file, /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/xxxxxx.pref, could not be opened

[p dont think]

BE CAREFUL!  It appears to me as if apache is running as root on your box.  I’m not an apache expert, so maybe someone else can chime in or you can ask elsewhere, but this is definitely not right.  For instance, if I chown everything in my data dir to root, I get errors, which is to be expected.  I definitely do not want apache to have root permissions!     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of admin Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:56 PM To: 'p dont think'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SM-USERS] Preference file, /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/xxxxxx.pref, could not be opened   I tried logging on as Muckleroy instead of muckleroy.  It gave me an error about being able to WRITE to the prefs directory.  I changed the owner of directory prefs to root:root and now everything works.  Go figure…  Thanks for the help   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of p dont think Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:51 PM To: 'admin'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SM-USERS] Preference file, /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/xxxxxx.pref, could not be opened   huh.  not sure, your permissions look good.  for fun, why not try 777 on both the prefs directory AND the files in it.  looks like every thing is owned by apache:apache, which is your webserver user, right?     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of admin Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 5:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SM-USERS] Preference file, /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/xxxxxx.pref, could not be opened   Sorry yes, at least I believe it is correct…   SquirrelMail Configuration : Read: config.php (1.2.0) --------------------------------------------------------- General Options 1.  Default Charset           : iso-8859-1 2.  Data Directory            : /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/ 3.  Attachment Directory      : /var/spool/squirrelmail/attach/ 4.  Directory Hash Level      : 0 5.  Default Left Size         : 150 6.  Usernames in Lowercase    : false 7.  Allow use of priority     : true 8.  Hide SM attributions      : false 9.  Allow use of receipts     : true 10. Allow editing of identity : true 11. Allow server thread sort  : true 12. Allow server-side sorting : true 14. Allow server charset search : true   R   Return to Main Menu C.  Turn color off S   Save data Q   Quit   Command >>   I changed prefs to 775 but I have the same error message.   [EMAIL PROTECTED] squirrelmail]# dir total 4 drwx------    2 apache   apache       4096 Mar 10 11:23 prefs [EMAIL PROTECTED] squirrelmail]# chmod 775 prefs [EMAIL PROTECTED] squirrelmail]# dir total 4 drwxrwxr-x    2 apache   apache       4096 Mar 10 11:23 prefs   -----Original Message----- From: p dont think [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:10 PM To: 'admin'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SM-USERS] Preference file, /var/lib/squirrelmail/prefs/xxxxxx.pref, could not be opened   is the path in the error message correct (seems like it, but you don’t specifically say)? try going with 775 permissions on the prefs directory itself.