Hi,
Almost a year ago I was looking at adding skel dir capability to
vpopmail (check the archives - 23/11/04 !).
For one reason or another I never quite got round to it.
However, tonight I've started putting something together.
The thing is, I've not done much programming in C before. Pascal, sure.
Perl - I'm a wizard :)
So, I've put together a section of code, which may or may not be valid
C, and would appreciate comments.
Introduction
This code is intended to add skel dir functionality to vpopmail.
It first looks for a domain-specific skel dir in:
/home/vpopmail/etc/domains/domain/skel
It then looks for a installation-specific skel dir in;
/home/vpopmail/etc/skel
If neither are found, it creates the default maildir structure.
= snippet of vpopmail.c ==
/* Initialise a couple of strings to hold directory paths
char skel_dir[MAX_BUFF];
char skel_location[MAX_BUFF];
/* initialise skel dir to empty */
strcpy(skel_dir,);
/* first directory to check */
snprintf(skel_location, sizeof(skel_location),
%s/etc/domains/%s/skel,
VPOPMAILDIR, domain);
/* check if it exists + is readable */
if (check_dir_readable(skel_location)) {
/* set the skel dir */
snprintf(skel_dir, sizeof(skel_dir), %s, skel_location)
} else {
/* next directory to check */
snprintf(skel_location, sizeof(skel_location),
%s/etc/skel,
VPOPMAILDIR);
/* check if it exists + is readable */
if (check_dir_readable(skel_location)) {
/* set the skel dir */
snprintf(skel_dir, sizeof(skel_dir), %s, skel_location);
}
};
/* if one of the skel dirs exists, use it */
if (skel_dir ) {
/* copy it to the newly-created user dir */
copydir(skel_dir, .);
} else {
/* otherwise, create the default dir structure*/
/* (this is core vpopmail code) */
for (i = 0; i sizeof(dirnames)/sizeof(dirnames[0]); i++) {
if (mkdir(dirnames[i],VPOPMAIL_DIR_MODE) == -1){
fprintf(stderr, make_user_dir: failed on %s\n, dirnames[i]);
/* back out of changes made above */
chdir(..);
vdelfiles(username);
chdir(calling_dir);
return(NULL);
}
}
}
= snippet of vpopmail.c ==
I've not yet written the check_dir_readable() or copydir() functions;
check_dir_readable may be really easy (it is in Perl :) ) but I've not
looked into how to implement it. copydir() is probably already available
somewhere if I have a quick google.
I'd appreciate any comments before I go any further with this.
Thanks,
R.
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