[cobalt-users] two issues (redirecting domain and groupfile lock)

[Ashby Gochenour <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Guys,
I have inherited administration on a fleet of Cobalt raqs (raq2, 3, and 
4s).

I have a raq2 that is complaining that 'group file is locked' when I try 
to add a virtual site.

I've read the archives and seen people that have had the same symptoms,  
but did not find a solution/resolution. One post reccomended looking in 
/etc/lock. I  looked and on this machine there is no /etc/lock. If 
anyone could give a  solution or suggestion much appriciated.

Issue 2:
(this is also on the same raq2)

I have a domain that needs to be pointed at another domain on the raq 
(via http).

www.newdomain.com should end up at www.existingvirtualdomain.com

The way the former admin was doing it was replacing the server alias 
(usually domain.com without the www) with the domain that wants to be 
pointed at the other. I don't like this way as it seems like a cheap 
hack and loses the ability of the first domain to be accessed without 
the www's. (I think they were doing this manual through editing httpd.conf)

I was thinking about adding the second site as a virtual domain and then 
editing the httpd.conf file to point the document root of the new domain 
to the document root of the site it wants to point to. I've noticed that 
these raqs don't like things done manually, so I think this idea is a 
bad one too. One more twist to the story is that DNS for these domains 
is also handled by the raq, so I don't know if this will complicate 
things more or not.
I'm sure there is an easy way to do this. Can anyone give me some some 
pointers here on how they do this?

Thank you,

Ashby Gochenour
OSS Engineering
NTELOS