Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin DNS Snag on System Recheck

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 13/Apr/2011 18:17 John Hinton <web...@ew...> wrote ..
> Hi Jamie,
> 
> I did an update to Virtualmin this evening. Yes, it hadn't been done in 
> a while on this system. I'm stuck. First, history. I have used backup 
> and restore to move hosting accounts from server to server over the 
> years. Some time back, I ran DNS on the server where the domain resides. 
> I have since set up individual machines that run only DNS.
> 
> So, I have this one domain that still has DNS tied to it in Virtualmin, 
> so when the new version does a system check, it fails since Bind is 
> turned off and this one domain is flagged to use bind. If I try to 
> enable Bind in Virtualmin, it seems I'll need to do a good bit of 
> configuration to get it up and running (at present, I'm only running 
> caching nameserver services). This leaves me in a loop. Can't turn it on 
> without a good bit of work, but can't turn it off anywhere.
> 
> So, off to /etc/webmin I go and find a couple of bind flags in the ACL 
> and set I think one of them from 1 to 0 and still no change.
> 
> Do you have a suggestion for where I can manually fix this?

A hack fix is to do the following :

1. SSH into the system as root
2. Run the command : virtualmin list-domains --domain whatever.com --id-only
   This will print the domain's unique numeric ID.
3. Edit the file under /etc/webmin/virtual-server/domains with that ID
   and remove the dns=1 line.

 - Jamie