is your webserver running sqwebmail as root? (scripts etc).. perhaps that
could be why?
as a quick dirt fix.. setup a crontab to run every minute and run chown -R
etc etc :)
graeme
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Davide Giunchi wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm managing a big qmail server that use sqwebmail-3.3.3 as webmail frontend,
> about 3 month ago i've upgraded from 2.0.1 to 3.3.3 and after 1 month circa i
> get one frequent problem: when a user's try to login in sometimes get:
>
> internal error (module sqconfig.c, line 63) - contact system administrator
>
> Reading the sqwebmail source i've found that this problem occur when
> sqwebmail is not able to open sqwebmail-ip or other's sqwebmail-* files.
> This is true since when this error occur i often find some sqwebmail-*
> (sqwebmail-ip or sqwebmail-timestamp the major) files that get owned by root
> (not by vpopmail) with 700 permission, if i do an chown vpopmail:vchkpw
> sqwebmail-* everything return ok.
>
> Now i sometimes get the same error in .Sent directory or so... and the user's
> get other's permission problem.
>
> Why sometimes some files get owned by root instead of vpopmail ? it's an
> sqwebmail bug? do you alread know this problem or it's a new stuff ?
>
> Any advice would be appreciate.
>
> Regards.
>
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