Re: [cobalt-users] hitting the 250-user limit

[Hostmaster <hostmaster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

on 6/16/00 3:59 PM, Kris Dahl at krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> on 6/16/00 2:27 PM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> One of my clients has a RaQ2 with > 250 sites, and when he went to
>> change a site, it deleted it!
>> 
>> Has anyone else run into such a disastrous enforcement policy <wry
>> grin>?
>> 
>> Has anyone gotten around it?  His sites are quite small.
> 
> Hate at ask this, but it seems worth asking:
> Are you sure that your client isn't just a being a wingnut?  I.e. that a
> site got accidentally deleted or something, coincidental to (but not caused
> by) the 250 site limit?

Two points:

1. I know the client and he's not a wingnut :-)

2. The problem as I understand it is the GUI. The program which handles the
GUI is probably running out of some resource or running into a timeout due
to the length of the files it's trying to read and the number of files to
open. When this happens, it fails. When it fails, all manner of problem can
happen including it simply going astray and deleting the site.

Okay, with that in mind, how do we get around the 250 limit?

1. Cobalt could AND SHOULD rewrite the GUI so that it handles more. They can
do this by branching the GUI in the very beginning so that it opens/reads
only a certain number of sites at one time and only makes them available for
editing. When you want to edit the other sites, you go back to the beginning
and start over choosing the branch (group of sites) you want to edit. While
not a simple thing, it needs to be done as this is a severe limitation to
the server.

2. You can easily bypass the GUI and work directly with Apache. I covered
this in a post about two weeks ago and gave the virtual host code. According
to the user I gave it to, the site doesn't even show up in the GUI but works
fine.

There are a couple of caveats but I'm sure there are workarounds.

1. ftp/password access?
2. email setup?

Anyone have any thoughts as to these last two? How do you manually (no GUI)
setup both of these? On our BSD system, I can add users directly to the
passwd file via an adduser program via telnet. Is there such a thing on the
RAQ2? What about adding aliases manually to either the aliases file or
virtusertable file? I've read earlier posts on Jeff using a separate aliases
file (aliases.local) and configuring sendmail.cf to find this file. What
about duplicate alias names? Where would these be placed? What about ftp
access?

Small problems with I'm sure simple workarounds.

Thoughts?

Scott
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