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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo location for squirrelmail attachments
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:24:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw3hyfzQFvR+xBtNmFW8qf6SEAXUfFojn+2-0LJY2vo4vA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2383832.qsbc0XXNJT@eve>

>> There is a Squirrelmail document recommending that the Squirrelmail
>> data and attachments directories are established outside of the web
>> server's reach.  /var is given as an example.  They also recommend
>> root:apache 0730 for both directories.
>>
>> This is a little disturbing because my Squirrelmail data directory was
>> created under the webroot as apache:apache 0755 at some point.  Would
>> this have been done by Gentoo?  Should I file a bug?
>>
>> "Prepare data and attachment directories"
>> http://squirrelmail.org/docs/admin/admin-3.html
>>
>> - Grant
>
> I think the data-directory is included from upstream and is there to have it
> work when installing it "blindly". Recommendations are not always possible
> (think hosted environments)

The Squirrelmail list is telling me:

> SquirrelMail doesn't create any directories aside from the ones
> contained in the installation itself.  It doesn't put anything in your
> webroot or anywhere else unless you're using some third party
> installer that does other things.
>
> Maybe you should file a bug report against whatever entity it was that
> provided the package that did that.

Does this sound like a Gentoo bug I should report?

- Grant



      reply	other threads:[~2011-12-09 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-08 19:17 [gentoo-user] Gentoo location for squirrelmail attachments Grant
2011-12-08 19:37 ` Stroller
2011-12-09  6:51   ` J. Roeleveld
2011-12-09 15:51     ` Grant
2011-12-09 16:08       ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-12-09  2:49 ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-12-09 15:49   ` Grant
2011-12-09 16:09     ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-12-09 16:14     ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-12-09 18:24       ` Grant [this message]

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