[cobalt-users] Re: Raq550: A quick review - I feel like a crash test dummy

[Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Once upon a time, John D. Gorena <Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>  - The Structure of how Domains are built seems to be really straight
> forward in the Raq4i .  All the E-mail files on the Raq4i are in
> /home/spool/mail and listed by User name and the virtual sites are
> numerically numbers.   In the Raq550, they are randomly numbered and it
> does not seem to have any particular pattern.  In the Raq550, the mail
> file is like /home/.sites/XX/site1/.users/XXX/username/mbox where 'X' is
> a random number.  The files are separated by the virtual domain in the
> Raq550 like E-mail is called mbox and httpd file info are in separate
> files by domain.

There are compatability symlinks for the old paths
(/home/site/www.domain.com/users/user still gets there).  The symlinks
are the "official" way to get there.

IIRC the numbers are related to the Cobalt Configuration Engine database
object IDs.

>  - The common Linux operating files are not used the same.  In the Raq4,
> the httpd.conf file has each virtual domain info listed.  In the Raq550
> there are no domain names and etc . . .

It is easier and less error prone (no locking problems for example) to
use the feature of Apache that will include all the files in a directory
as part of the http.conf (there is a subdirectory under /etc/httpd/conf
with a file for each virtual domain).

>  - Regular password files that we like to use (.htaccess) for password
> protection for virtual site administrators, all users, or specific
> login/passwords do not seem to be used in the raq550.  For example,
> files like 'shadow' and 'passwd' would list the users on the Raq4i but
> on the Raq550 they are virtually empty.  On the Raq550 gives an error
> message that says CI is not installed.

AFAIK .htaccess files work fine.  What is "CI"?

>  - I migrated about 300 users (about 50 domains) and not one of them
> were in the passwd type of files.  I thought about using a program like
> the Raq4's 'meta-verify' but the Raq550 does not have this file and I
> have yet to read any responses (I don't think I missed any) concerning
> the 'meta-verify' and the raq550.

/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow only contains "system" users.  The rest of
the users are in .db files in /var/db (IIRC) for scalability (if you put
thousands of users on a server, having them all in /etc/passwd
significantly slows dow the system due to the overhead of each and every
lookup).

>  - Basic CI programs do not seem to work - returns errors.

Again, what is "CI"?

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Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.