Preventing CPanel Updating Squirrelmail

This is a old topic, but I figure I'd complete it:

To prevent squirrelmail from updating itself,

This will make it so the cPanel webmail update script thinks we did a local install, which will cause it to not update it.

 

Sorry to dig up this old thread but when i do the following as indicated above I get permission denied errors.

[root@host ~]# touch /var/cpanel/squirrelmail/install
touch: cannot touch `/var/cpanel/squirrelmail/install': Permission denied
[root@host ~]# chmod 0777 touch /var/cpanel/squirrelmail/install
chmod: cannot access `touch': No such file or directory
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/cpanel/squirrelmail/install': Operation not permitted


How can I fix this?

 

It turns out the file install had attribute set as 'i'.

======================================
[root@host squirrelmail]# lsattr
----i-------- ./install
[root@host squirrelmail]# chattr -i install
[root@host squirrelmail]# lsattr
------------- ./install
[root@host squirrelmail]# touch install
[root@host squirrelmail]#
======================================

A file with the 'i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file and no data can be written to the file. Only the superuser or a process possessing the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute.

I must have done this previously without realizing it.

 

Hi guys,

This is not related to squirrel mail but it is related to locking the files as
mentioned in this post...

I have done some updates to EXIM under the exim.conf file and every other
day or so I have to keep adding the file back because when cpanel updates
it wipes out all of the changes.

So is there a way to make it so cpanel will not update exim.conf and leave
the preconfiged settings when it updates?

Thanks,
Joe