Sahil Tandon wrote:
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, John Hinton wrote:
FYI. I just had all of the squirrelmail prefs for all the users on one of my servers disappear. I have never had anything like this happen ever before. I'm in the process of finding the needle in the haystack of logs to try to get a handle on this. I'm sending this to the list as a heads up. Seems like Squirrelmail is not doing so good here over the last few months.
Please provide evidence before implicating SquirrelMail.
Right. Sorry. The thing is I looked in the prefs directory and it was totally empty. I forgot that these files were all owned by apache. The real trouble was a header injection through a cms. Really nasty of them to bother with dumping SM prefs. That the worst damage I've found so far after getting stuff cleaned up.... or sort of cleaned up. Unfortunately, since I do the standard SM install, the prefs are in the user directories which are backed up and I hadn't thought to backup SM prefs. Fortunately, we don't have a lot of users that rely on SM.
I made a bad immediate call. It was done in case others wanted to backup the prefs in case it was actually SM.
Now to figure out a best way to create new prefs files for the scads of users on this server. :(
John Hinton