Bug 45921

Summary:	squirrelmail instructions in virtual-mail HOWTO need updating
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Jason Wever (RETIRED) <weeve>
Component:	Virtual-mail HOWTO	Assignee:	Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) <swift>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	docs-team
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-27 12:47:43 UTC

It appears that in newer versions of squirrelmail, some behaviors hage changed.  In http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml#doc_chap11, the squirrelmail instructions in clode listing 11.1 include the following two lines

# cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mail/conf
# ./conf.pl

The version that is currrently stable for x86 and sparc has changed the conf dir to config and the executable bit is not set on conf.pl, so he following should work.

# cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mail/config
# perl ./config.pl

Alternatively, the document could advise the use of chmod to fix the executable bit problem, but I don't know if that will cause portage to not remove the file should the user ever uninstall squirrelmail since the file will have been changed from it's installed copy.

This was noticed in the following forum post;
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=991836#991836

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-11 08:54:03 UTC

Fixed in CVS. I'm rewrting the desktop guide (without squirrelmail instructions) so those instructions will be removed later.