On 20 Nov 2005 14:30:09 -0000, Michael Havlicek michal7@PROTECTED Subject: [dadadev] A problem on our server! Wrote these words of wisdom:

Dear Simoni! I bought your software dada mail pro 2 days ago I am very glad and I thank you again for making such a good software I had a problem when I installed the pro version over the ancient free version I know it's my fault because I have your wonderful magic book but I was very excited and please let me explain: I replaced the ancient dada files of the free version withe the pro files with ftp I begun to write directly in the config file and in the dada bridge and mail file and I made them executable I used an ancient link in the history of my browser for opening dada mail administration board Everythink was OK I had the administrator board but I noticed that the dada_bridge file didn't appear as an active plugin and it was executable and configured I was surprised I tried to open the administrator board as I should have done typing his web address Suddenly apache did NOT find any file in my cgi-bin directory I tried to installe dada pro again with ftp over the ancient files erasing and replacing them I saw that the config file was made invisible and everythink exept one line of text was erased in the file The name of the config file was changes the file was invisible and had an added dash

I am in great trouble because my brother is webmaster and is hosting my site: he is EXTREMELY angry because he had a lot of work today and he MUST have apache finding his perl executables monday

Please help us Give us a clue! What is the problem exactly? I notice also that I didn't have the licence screen on my computer Is it a sort of punishment for the people who don't agree to the GNU licence? For myself I must tell that I am not angry only affraid because my brother runs a big server on linux and has many files and clients on this computer Please I want to thank you again for your wonderful software but could you help us?

How to repair the system?

Michel

REPLY SEPARATOR On 11/20/2005 9:34:52 AM Gerard Replied:

I admit that I do not know a lot about linux; however, I am running DADA from my web server I am presently running FreeBSD 5 4 as the OS In this OS, your brother could have placed all of your files in a jail, and thereby reduced the possibility that you could screw up the system

I believe you said you had the Pro version Obviously, you have the original, unaltered copy of that available Nobody would be dumb enough to actually alter a paid version of a program without first backing it up

Now totally erase all traces of DADA from the server In this case, it would behoove you to ask your brother to undertake this procedure for you

Now, reinstall DADA Pro Chmod the mail cgi file and any plugins Do not change the permissions on the Config pm file Some people, like me for instance, make all configuration changes to files before uploading them Others prefer to wait until they are in place In any case, make sure that the required changes are initiated

You could be good to go from there, assuming that you did not alter the httpd conf file for Apache I really doubt that you could have done that anyway, unless you have root access I do hope your brother has not given you that without fully educating you as to what the consequences of it are