Steve - Thank you very much for your insight to this problem.
> You can have multiple alias files, but not virtual user files. If > you discover otherwise, please share with us. What is the difference between an alias file and a virtual user file? > I built software for a client a year or so ago that does just that. The > client's running it on a RaQ3. The software actually rewrites Sendmail, DNS > and Apache files and runs some scripts in order to allow clients to manage > email redirection and web redirection accounts via a password-protected web > interface with MySQL backend. Sounds similar to what you're attempting. Very similar. I already have web redirection running, but I am looking to do mail redirection in a safe and reliable manner, hence this post. >> therefore there would be no file locking issues. > > This is definitely an issue. It was easy to manage in the system I was > building for because the GUI was only going to be used by the server admin > and only rarely. I did encounter problems with one or both of the > virtusertable and special aliases files sometimes not being written to as > expected. So on each update the original files were backed up, I worked wit > h temp files and file sizes were compared and if the byte count of the live > file was outside a threshold range the previous snapshot was reverted to and > an email was generated which was sent to the server admin. Probably not > ideal, but it worked and the software is still being used. That's an interesting concept. If I have to go in and modify the virtusertable I will try to add some checking like you describe. > I hope some of what I shared is useful. Very much so, thanks again. -- John Keegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://RackShare.com _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
