On Friday 25 June 2004 02:40 pm, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: > At 12:33 PM 6/25/2004, Ken Jones wrote: > >What you can do is keep the original data, then update and add a domain. > >If it doesn't work, put the old data back. It only is used when adding > > domains not users. > > thanks. so my speculation that the 'dom_89' user is sort of a > 'master' field for such things is correct?
Yep! It controls just the domain directory layout. dom_89 is short for "domain_directory_layout_user_id_89" since 89 was reserved for vpopmail by one of the *nix distributions . > > i'll give this a try. and i'll be using phpMyadmin - thanks to the guys for > the various suggestions for running it. (i'm doing two layers of security - > first a .htaccess allowing only my home machine, and, when i'm not using > phpmyadmin - which is most of the time - i just chmod 0000 the phpmyadmin > directory. that's about as secure as you can get, i'd say!) > > > > > > >there is no domain dom_89, which suggests to me this may be the > > > > > > 'master control' for what overflow subdirectory is to be used - > > > > > > it's the only record that has '5' for the value 'the_dir', and > > > > > > '89' is the vpopmail uid/gid. > > > > > > > > > > > >however, i'm reluctant to make changes to the record, for fear of, > > > > > > well, duh - completely destroying my setup with one bad > > > > > > keystroke. > > > > > > > > > > > >so, if anyone can confirm my speculations, and suggest how to fix > > > > > > it (that's right, i've never inserted data manually into a > > > > > > table!), i'd appreciate the help. > > > > > > > > > > Paul Theodoropoulos > > > > > http://www.anastrophe.com > > > > > > Paul Theodoropoulos > > > http://www.anastrophe.com > > Paul Theodoropoulos > http://www.anastrophe.com
