Re: [webmin-l] 2 bugs and a feature request

[Brian C. <we...@we...>]

Jamie Cameron wrote ..
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:07, Brian Case wrote:
> > Bug 1:
> > 
> > Mail spool files aren't created consistently. This may be an OS problem(FC2),
> but I'm not sure.
> > 
> > Some files in /var/spool/mail are created as being owned by uid.gid and
> some are created as being owned by uid.gid-of-mail.
> > I can't seem to find a pattern to it... Some of each instance have been
> on the server fir a year plus and some have just been created recently...
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> My guess is that those owned by uid:gid were created by Webmin or
> Virtualmin, while those owned by the mail group were created by your
> mail server when mail for the account first arrives. Both should work
> fine though..
> Are you seeing any problems caused by the different group ownerships?

I'm not seeing any problems... I just thought it was odd...
But why would the mail file sometimes be created by Webmin/Virtualmin and other times be created by sendmail?

> > Bug 2:
> > 
> > When deleting a domain via Virtualmin, disk quota entries are not being
> removed. When you look at the quotas, any users or groups that have been
> deleted are still there but they are now listed by their uid or gid and
> cannot be removed via the Quota module. It has to be done from the command
> line...
> 
> This isn't really a bug .. 
> Unix disk quotas cannot actually be deleted - instead, they are just
> ignored if the UID does not own any files, and will be over-written when
> a new user is created with the same UID.

Maybe I didn't delete them but I was able to get them to not show in the Quota module using:

setquota -u 600 0 0 0 0 /

Where 600 is the uid

> > Feature request:
> > 
> > Would it be possible to have a Virtualmin module to install web site
> applications like OSCommerce or PHPBB?
> > I wouldn't think this would be hard to do but my Perl is weak and my
> knowledge of the inner workings of Webmin are straight from /dev/null :-)
> 
> The Pro version of Virtualmin has this exact feature already :)
> I will be backported to the GPL version some time in future though,
> although I will need to cleanup and synchronize the code between the two
> versions first..

Any time frame to GPLing some of the "Pro" features?

Brian