Re: [vchkpw] vDELdomain problem
I did something similar a while back. I had one main domain and another one that was aliased to it. I ran vdeldomain on the alias and noticed that the command was taking a few seconds. I stopped the command, but it had trashed a bunch of accounts. I can tell you that it definitely did NOT delete things in alphabetical order. It seemed to delete them in the order they were created. It started with accounts in the top level directory and then proceeded into the folders below (0, 1, etc.). One of the first casualties was the vpasswd file so noone could authenticate. You may be using a different authentication method, so this may not be the case with you. Fortunately, I had a good, recent backup that saved me...I hope you do too. Trey Nolen - Original Message - From: Root Kit To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 2:51 AM Subject: [vchkpw] vDELdomain problem Hello, I've got a big problem, please help. I've runned vdeldomain on a mailserver (unfortunate act), but I've canceled the command fast. The luck is that only the first user that started with A had no emails. But, in the last time period, another user claimed he has a few mails in minus My question is: HOW vdeldomain acts? How it performs this mail removal? Is it in a alphabetical order? In a time order? Or how? Thank you very much and please provide some help because i'm desperate. Ronnie. !DSPAM:4889c75b32311421062762!
Re: [vchkpw] vDELdomain problem
Thank you for your reply, Trey Nolen. I was not so lucky with the backup part :) I confirm, the first file deleted was vpasswd, so the users cannot authenticate. Maybe someone could provide more help about this. Thank you. --- On Fri, 7/25/08, Trey Nolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Trey Nolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vDELdomain problem To: vchkpw@inter7.com Date: Friday, July 25, 2008, 5:11 AM I did something similar a while back. I had one main domain and another one that was aliased to it. I ran vdeldomain on the alias and noticed that the command was taking a few seconds. I stopped the command, but it had trashed a bunch of accounts. I can tell you that it definitely did NOT delete things in alphabetical order. It seemed to delete them in the order they were created. It started with accounts in the top level directory and then proceeded into the folders below (0, 1, etc.). One of the first casualties was the vpasswd file so noone could authenticate. You may be using a different authentication method, so this may not be the case with you. Fortunately, I had a good, recent backup that saved me...I hope you do too. Trey Nolen - Original Message - From: Root Kit To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 2:51 AM Subject: [vchkpw] vDELdomain problem Hello, I've got a big problem, please help. I've runned vdeldomain on a mailserver (unfortunate act), but I've canceled the command fast. The luck is that only the first user that started with A had no emails. But, in the last time period, another user claimed he has a few mails in minus My question is: HOW vdeldomain acts? How it performs this mail removal? Is it in a alphabetical order? In a time order? Or how? Thank you very much and please provide some help because i'm desperate. Ronnie. !DSPAM:4889d0b832311012019045!
Re: [vchkpw] vDELdomain problem
On 25/07/08 23:10:14, Root Kit wrote: Thank you for your reply, Trey Nolen. I was not so lucky with the backup part :) I confirm, the first file deleted was vpasswd, so the users cannot authenticate. Maybe someone could provide more help about this. That makes sense, if yo delete a domain, you immediately want it non-usable how about moving to MySQL, this way you can do hourly dumps of the database, and daily on maildirs - it doesnt help your curent situation, but there is nothing you can do now but move forward and take measures to prevent it from happening again. Using MySQL is trivial, more efficent, in fact very efficient if you have alot of users and are currently adding/deleting email accounts Thank you. --- On Fri, 7/25/08, Trey Nolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Trey Nolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vchkpw] vDELdomain problem To: vchkpw@inter7.com Date: Friday, July 25, 2008, 5:11 AM I did something similar a while back. I had one main domain and another one that was aliased to it. I ran vdeldomain on the alias and noticed that the command was taking a few seconds. I stopped the command, but it had trashed a bunch of accounts. I can tell you that it definitely did NOT delete things in alphabetical order. It seemed to delete them in the order they were created. It started with accounts in the top level directory and then proceeded into the folders below (0, 1, etc.). One of the first casualties was the vpasswd file so noone could authenticate. You may be using a different authentication method, so this may not be the case with you. Fortunately, I had a good, recent backup that saved me...I hope you do too. Trey Nolen - Original Message - From: Root Kit To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 2:51 AM Subject: [vchkpw] vDELdomain problem Hello, I've got a big problem, please help. I've runned vdeldomain on a mailserver (unfortunate act), but I've canceled the command fast. The luck is that only the first user that started with A had no emails. But, in the last time period, another user claimed he has a few mails in minus My question is: HOW vdeldomain acts? How it performs this mail removal? Is it in a alphabetical order? In a time order? Or how? Thank you very much and please provide some help because i'm desperate. Ronnie. !DSPAM:488a4d6232311617615954!
Re: [vchkpw] vDELdomain problem
On 25/07/08 23:10:14, Root Kit wrote: Thank you for your reply, Trey Nolen. I was not so lucky with the backup part :) This is also a high priority for you to sort out, write your backup scripts in perl, so they can mail you if it has problems, I do this with all backups, it means manually checking them once a month or so, rather than day or two. I do a rolling 7 day backup of vpopmail dirs with rsync, but I do a 168 hour rolling mysqldump backup, so I can go back to any hour within the past 7 days. But your immediate next action is to learn and use onchange , this is perhaps the single biggest thing that could have saved you, because you can have it tar up and dump the database entries for that domain and whatever upon a domain deletion command, so in your case, all you need do is vadddomain again, restore the tar file, and re import the database dump for that that domain, again, it does not help you now, but it wil save your butt if it happens again. !DSPAM:488a4fe932311570884359!
Re: [vchkpw] vdeldomain issue
Pablo Medina wrote: Hi all. Hope someone can help me I am running a qmail/vpopmail/maildrop installation in a mail box. Yesterday the box stopped receiving mail. All mail was rejected with the error: 421 unable to read controls After a quick search in the net i solved it chmodding /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. But i was yet to discover what could cause this , as this box was running smoothly for months. The last think i did was add and delete a domain via popmaild. So today i tried again. Logged to the server via popmaild add_domain sample.com list_domains del_domain sample.com and bang...the server stops receiving mail. bash-3.00$ telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 25 Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Escape character is '^]'. 421 unable to read controls (#4.3.0) vpopmail version is : 5.5.3 (downloaded from http://www.inter7.com/vhostadmin) I think you want to stay in the 5.4.x-tree, if you want to run it on a production-system and keep your sanity. (And your customers) Rainer
Re: [vchkpw] vdeldomain issue
Hi yep. i agree, but that means no vpopmaild for you. I was very happy wirting an ASP app to use it. Beside this, i have three versions of vpopmail: vpopmail-latest-cvs vpopmail-5.5.3 vpopmail-5.4.10 and the three versions seems to chmod files properly using chmod(tmpbuf1, VPOPMAIL_QMAIL_MODE ) So i guess the problem is elsewhere. Anyway, i do not see a bug report about this so it seems it is something related to my configuration. TIA 2005/7/6, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Pablo Medina wrote: Hi all. Hope someone can help me I am running a qmail/vpopmail/maildrop installation in a mail box. Yesterday the box stopped receiving mail. All mail was rejected with the error: 421 unable to read controls After a quick search in the net i solved it chmodding /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts. But i was yet to discover what could cause this , as this box was running smoothly for months. The last think i did was add and delete a domain via popmaild. So today i tried again. Logged to the server via popmaild add_domain sample.com list_domains del_domain sample.com and bang...the server stops receiving mail. bash-3.00$ telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 25 Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Escape character is '^]'. 421 unable to read controls (#4.3.0) vpopmail version is : 5.5.3 (downloaded from http://www.inter7.com/vhostadmin) I think you want to stay in the 5.4.x-tree, if you want to run it on a production-system and keep your sanity. (And your customers) Rainer
RE: [vchkpw] Vdeldomain
Check your qmail configs to see if it's in there: /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts /var/qmail/users/assign And after you've changed those, you'll need to run a qmail-newu to rebuild the assign cdb file. -Clayton -Original Message- From: Zeno Davatz [mailto:zdavatz;ywesee.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Vdeldomain I deinstalled vpopmail and installed it again from source. I do vdeldomain yweseelocal.com and get: Error: Domain does not exist. I do vadddomain yweseelocal.com and get: Error: Domain already exists. What can I do to remove the domain completely so that I can add it again. Thanks for any help and hints. Zeno
Re: [vchkpw] Vdeldomain
On 29.10.2002 20:14 Uhr, Clayton Weise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your qmail configs to see if it's in there: /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts /var/qmail/users/assign And after you've changed those, you'll need to run a qmail-newu to rebuild the assign cdb file. Thanks Clayton, for your kind help. You saved my night. Zeno -Original Message- From: Zeno Davatz [mailto:zdavatz;ywesee.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Vdeldomain I deinstalled vpopmail and installed it again from source. I do vdeldomain yweseelocal.com and get: Error: Domain does not exist. I do vadddomain yweseelocal.com and get: Error: Domain already exists. What can I do to remove the domain completely so that I can add it again. Thanks for any help and hints. Zeno -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards Zeno Davatz Strategie Akquisition +41 1 350 85 86 www.ywesee.com intellectual capital connected www.generika.cc
