> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dallas Engelken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 10:39 AM
> To: Vazquez Javier; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: maildircache: Cache create failure
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vazquez Javier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:32 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: maildircache: Cache create failure
> >
> >
> > hi there
> >
> > I couldn't find any list-archive, so I don't now if it's a stupid
> > question.
> > ;-)
> >
> > anyway, here comes the error-message:
> >
> > <snip> sqwebmail: maildircache: Cache create failure - unable to create
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<snip>
> >
> > there actually is no directory named /var/run/sqwebmail ...
> have I missed
> > something?
> >
>
> * --with-cachedir=dir,  --with-cacheowner=userid  - SqWebMail uses a
>        cache  of  currently  active  logins.  SqWebMail runs for each and
>        every  HTTP  request,  and  after starting, it needs to locate the
>        account's  maildir.  Because hitting the authentication module can
>        be  expensive  (think  MySQL/LDAP  query  for every HTTP request!)
>        SqWebMail  caches  the login information, in order to avoid having
>        your  authentication server brought down to its knees. By default,
>        the  directory  /var/cache/sqwebmail or /var/run/sqwebmail will be
>        used,  owned by the bin user. These options can be used to specify
>        a different location for the sqwebmail login cache directory.
>        You  MUST  add a periodic cron job to run the cleancache.pl script
>        in  order  to delete stale cache records from the cache directory.
>        make  install  will display the message containing the text of the
>        cron job.
>
> to fix:
> # mkdir /var/run/sqwebmail
> # chown bin.bin /var/run/sqwebmail
>
> at least that is what i had to do on my 5.0pre5.
>
> Dallas
>

Would have been easier to just leave the --with-cache-dir off your
configure, just like sam said the other day its an option 99% of people do
not need.

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