The 'could not open assign file' error is triggered by the fact that the
first call to get_domain_entries( "developersdesk.net" ) returned NULL.
I see two possible ways to solve this problem:
1: Return just the information about the desired domain alias: -------------------------------------------------------------------vdominfo developersdesk.netdomain: developersdesk.net ... realdomain: developersdesk.com Note: developersdesk.net is an alias for developersdesk.com -------------------------------------------------------------------
2: Return a data block for the parent domain: -------------------------------------------------------------------vdominfo developersdesk.netdomain: developersdesk.com ... realdomain: developersdesk.com
domain: developersdesk.net ... realdomain: developersdesk.com Note: developersdesk.net is an alias for developersdesk.com
domain: developersdesk.org ... realdomain: developersdesk.com Note: developersdesk.org is an alias for developersdesk.com -------------------------------------------------------------------
At first glance, 1 looks to be the right answer. After sleeping on it,
I think I like 2 better because it is the real answer to the question of
"what developersdesk.net really is." It is also easier to implement. I
can just use vget_assign() in vdominfo to retrieve the real domain name
before passing it to get_domain_entries(). 1 requires changing the code
in get_domain_entries().
I agree that two is the better solution.
It might be possible to simply modify get_domain_entries() by adding a few lines (manually typed and not tested):
if (!*match_buffer || (strcmp (match_buffer, entry.realdomain) == 0))
return &entry;
+ /* if alias domain matches our search criteria, re-run the search
+ using real domain instead */
+ if (strcmp (match_buffer, entry.domain) == 0)
+ return get_domain_entries (entry.realdomain);With a screwy users/assign file, you will get weird results. You need to be sure that all "real" domains are only aliased to themselves.
For example, this would be bad:
b.com:a.com a.com:b.com
It should always be:
b.com:b.com a.com:b.com
Searching for a.com will cancel the search at 'a.com:b.com' and re-run it for b.com. In the first example, it would match b.com:a.com and re-run it for a.com and get in an infinite loop.
-------------------------------------------------------------------vdominfo developersdesk.comdomain: developersdesk.com uid: 77 gid: 72 dir: /mail/domains/developersdesk.com users: 0 alias: developersdesk.net alias: developersdesk.org -------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------vdominfo developersdesk.netdomain: developersdesk.com uid: 77 gid: 72 dir: /mail/domains/developersdesk.com users: 0 alias: developersdesk.net alias: developersdesk.org -------------------------------------------------------------------
Comments?
I agree that this is a preferred format. Also, if it doesn't already do so, vdominfo should exit non-zero if the domain doesn't exist. That way, shell script can run it, ignore the output and check the exit code to see if it's a valid domain for that server.
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