Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ2 Erasing e-mail Aliases

[Jay Summers <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On our RaQ2, whenever I change the "Maximum allowed disk space" on a site
> account from the admin, site maintenance, control screen it erases that
> account's primary user's Email Aliases! Can anyone confirm this? Sounds
> like a Cobalt Screen Interface bug. Anyone have a patch/work around?

Wow, thanks for this. I just tried it on my Raq2 and it definitely is a bug.
Must be an error in the secret slime. ;) This just happened to me last month
when I changed a site quota. People where emailing me and they kept bouncing
until I noticed that my catchall alias was MIA. Didn't know what happened
until now.

> It had been driving me crazy for months because we would have clients
> "randomly" reporting that their e-mail was no longer working (e-mail was
> being rejected back to the sender). I would go in and check their account
> and the alias field would be blank, thus accepting no mail for that account
> even though the "accept e-mail" box was checked. Resetting the aliases back
> to @www.domainname.com would naturally fix it. I was ready to accuse the
> ISP of restoring prior backups without informing us, etc. Only today did I
> finally make the connection as I typically change the site limits at the
> begining of the month, to allow the log files to collect an entire month
> for monthly log reports (increasing the maximum allowed size also increases
> the size the logs grow to before they get compressed - I know it's a hack,
> but for some reason I can't get the setting to allow logs to grow until the
> end of the month to take precedence over the default settings.)

Are you using the logrotate config files in /etc/logrotate.d and
/etc/logrotate.onboot ? That's where the individual site config files are
stored. Here's how I set mine up to rotate monthly:

=-=-=
/home/sites/site#/logs/access {
   compress
   monthly
   rotate 1
   olddir /home/sites/site#/logs
   postrotate
               /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
   endscript
}
=-=-=

Type man logrotate for more info.

This will be overwritten by the GUI any time you make quota changes, so I
ended up changing the Cobalt scripts to default to the monthly setting.
Here's a post from me in the archives.

http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-users/2001-August/049671.html

HTH,
j

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