>  I have rerun config.pl after a new install of 1.4.2 from 1.2.7 on a
linux
> machine
> 
> I simply untarred the directory into my path & renamed it to webmail
> 
> Now when trying to log in as user i get the following
> 
> 
> ERROR
> Error opening ../data/default_pref
> Could not create initial preference file!
> ../data/ should be writable by user nobody
> Please contact your system administrator and report this error
> 
> This file has attributes as follows
> 
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 1000   1000           82 Mar  9  2001 default_pref
> 
> I changed it to 777 just to see if this was an issue but obviously not

You also need to check the data directory itself.  Is your web server
user UID 1000?!?

http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?DataPermissions



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