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

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

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 11:25, Brian Case wrote:
> 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?

Hard to say .. perhaps what happens is that Virtualmin sends out the new
account email and then creates the mailbox, and it depends on whether
Sendmail delivers the mail first, or Virtualmin creates the file.

> > > 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

Ok, I didn't realize that .. well, in the next release of Virtualmin I
will zero out quotas when deleting users.

> > > 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?

That all depends on when we release the 1.0 Pro version ..

 - Jamie