Re: [webmin-devel] Possible bug

[John G. <gr...@ag...>]

Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 28/Feb/2008 14:15 Bill Moyers wrote ..
>   
>> I think there may be a bug in Virtualmin 3.53 (GPL). We have 3.46 (GPL)
>> running on one box and it correctly reports domain user counts on
>> virtual-server/index.cgi. The 3.53 installation reports much lower
>> numbers.  Checking out the code, it looks like the new version calls
>> &count_domain_users() to get the counts whereas the old version uses the
>> length of &list_domain_users(domain). I'm not 100% sure what causes the
>> erroneous results, but it looks like &count_domain_users expects the home
>> directories to be in a predetermined structure which ours I think don't
>> match. Any thoughts? For now I've changed it use the old method for
>> counting users.
>>     
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> The 3.53 version of Virtualmin changed the way users were counted, as
> the old method was rather slow - it involved a call to list_domain_users
> for each domain, which collected a lot more information than was needed.
>
> But it is a bug if they don't return the same counts. What kind of directory
> structure are you using for your users there?
>
>   
Before we started using virtualmin,  the structure for the home 
directories was /home/<username>

It looks like its not counting those users.

John