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Bug 45921 - squirrelmail instructions in virtual-mail HOWTO need updating
Summary: squirrelmail instructions in virtual-mail HOWTO need updating
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Virtual-mail HOWTO (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2004-03-27 12:47 UTC by Jason Wever (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-04-11 08:54 UTC (History)
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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.