Re: [cobalt-users] GUI Site List errors...

[Rik Thomas <rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> A long time ago, back on Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:14:07 -0700, Steven Werby
> wrote:
>
> > "Tim M. Muldoon" <muldoon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > During the interim I had added 2 sites, 47 and 48, which appear in my
> > > home/sites directory by FTP but do not show in the GUI. If I double click
> > on
> > > the link names in WS_FTP it brings me to the home/sites/site47-48
> > > directories.
> > >
> > > What is the best way to fix this? Is there a way to force a re-read of the
> > > virtual site list?
> >
> > /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteList/siteList.cgi
>
> When I try this on a RaQ4, I get an "offline" mode that asks me for
> entries.  I have no idea what to type here, and I have to fix this
> system as soon as possible.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?  This is a working machine with twenty sites, and
> I need to add 50 more asap.  When I tried to add a site I got an error
> message something about a "shadow" file" (not the "shadow" file used to
> store passwords).  I've tried since and can't duplicate this error, but
> I keep getting a "Group home site1 already exists" error.
>
> Any ideas???  Anyone???
>
> Jeff

Note: I have tried this and has worked every time for strange problems
like this and is apparently it is a pretty popular way to fix problems
similar to this.  I read it on webhostintalk some time ago and continue to
use it.  Here is the reference:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23101&highlight=cobalt+database+rebuild

watch the wraps, and for archive purposes here are the exact directions:

su to root
cd /home/pgsql
su postgres
edit pg_hba.conf
change crypt to trust
pg_dump cobalt > cobalt.dump
vi cobalt.dump
find create_table for quota and hash it out ( comment it out # )
close
destroydb cobalt
createdb cobalt
psql cobalt < cobalt.dump
edit pg_hba.conf
change trust back to crypt
/usr/local/sbin/swatch


Another great too can be found here:

ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/duncan/raq3/meta-verify.pl

It is an integrity checker of your virtual sites, etc.  This is another
tool that we use on over 50 + raq 3's that we support for clients.



HTH.  If you need some help we are availle.
-- 
Rik Thomas
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