Really like the sound of your automatic restore. When will a release
version be out?
-Colin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Stauber [mailto:bq (at mark) solarspeed.net]
> Sent: 06 August 2006 19:09
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:06219] Re: Funnies
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> > On the old server we had a user john in vsite
> www.domain.tld John is
> > no longer there and when I try and re-instate him BQ says I can't
> > (presumably because it thinks he is already there) I have created a
> > user john_new in the same vsite as before with an email
> alias of john
> > and that works fine.
> >
> > Anybody any ideas?
>
> I've been recently working on an update of my Automated
> Backup software and added a functionality for an automatic
> restore of CMU-exports, DNS and MySQL data. Example usage
> purpose: You export all data daily to a 2nd server, where it
> is automatically reimported on different IP addresses. In
> case of an outage of the primary server you just power the
> primary down and renumber the IPs on the 2nd server to the
> IPs that the sites were on before (with a provided script or
> through the GUI).
>
> While testing that stuff I've run into similar caveats as you
> have noticed:
> Sometimes when you delete a user, his home directory isn't
> deleted, or the directory one above his home directory (if it
> is empty after the removal) is not deleted propperly.
>
> The next time you want to either import that user through
> CMU, or attempt to create him manually with the CLI tools or
> through the GUI, then it bugs out with "user cannot be
> created" or similar.
>
> To fix it you have to locate the directory in question and
> need to delete it manually <sigh>.
>
> In my case where I want to reset the server to near factory
> defaults (no sites or users on it) I simply delete all sites
> and then remove everything within /home/.sites/ and
> /home/.users/ (with the exception of user "admin"
> of course!!!).
>
> So how to do it on a server where that isn't an option, as
> you want to preserve the sites and users already on it?
>
> First locate where the site in question stores the users:
>
> [root (at mark) cbq sites]# ls -al /home/sites/|grep www.mysite.com
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul 3 22:44 www.mysite.com
> -> ../.sites/143/site2
>
> Ok, so the site is located under /home/.sites/143/site2/
>
> So we find its users here:
>
> /home/.sites/143/site2/.users/
>
> Now run this two commands:
>
> ls -la /home/.sites/143/site2/.users/*/
> ls -la /home/.sites/143/site2/.users/*/*/
>
> If you find an empty directory with nothing in it, then
> that's the one you want/need to remove.
>
> --
>
> With best regards,
>
> Michael Stauber
>
>