I have setup postfix to deliver mail to Maildir/ and my apache site directory to /home/user/public_html. It works fine only recently I have noticed that every folder and file in /home/ is being duplicated in /var/www/ How can I stop this duplicating? Another thing is that when I setup transparency proxy, I cannot access any remote servers via vpn or webmin. Is there a way to correct this or its just one of the disadvantages of transparent proxy? I'm using ubuntu 8.04 server Your help will be greately appreciated.
Did you maybe set up a cron job that's syncing the directories? What's the output of Code: crontab -l ?
No, I did not set up any cron jobs. If its possible mayb some of the packages am running did that automatically. I'm running Apache Webserver BIND DNS Server DHCP Server Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Fetchmail Mail Retrieval MySQL Database Server Postfix Mail Server ProFTPD Server SSH Server Samba Windows File Sharing Squid Proxy Server Virtualmin Virtual Servers (GPL) Webalizer Logfile Analysis I mostly use webmin for configurations and commands here and there. Here's the output of crontab -l Code: 22 12 * * * /etc/webmin/cron/tempdelete.pl 3,8,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,53,58 * * * * /etc/webmin/virtual-server/collectinfo.pl 0,3,5,8,11,14,17,19,22,25,28,30,32,35,37,40,42,45,49,52,54,56,58 * * * * /etc/webmin/fetchmail/check.pl --mail fetchmail\@martinology\.co\.za --errors 25 0 * * * /etc/webmin/webalizer/webalizer.pl /home/martin/logs/access_log 0 * * * * /etc/webmin/bandwidth/rotate.pl 37 0 * * * /etc/webmin/webalizer/webalizer.pl /home/webmail-martinology.selfip.org/logs/access_log
What are the outputs of Code: mount and Code: ls -la /home and Code: ls -la /var/www ? What's in /etc/fstab?
Here are the outputs Code: > mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime,resgid=1002) /dev/sda5 on /share type ext3 (rw,relatime) /var/www on /home type none (rw,bind) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) Code: > ls -la /home total 44 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2009-11-07 23:41 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2009-09-07 20:39 .. -rw------- 1 root root 0 2009-09-07 20:36 aquota.user drwxr-xr-x 4 dalitso users 4096 2009-11-05 12:43 dalitso drwxr-xr-x 3 demster users 4096 2009-11-12 15:45 demster drwxrwxrwx 3 ftp nogroup 4096 2009-10-27 20:58 ftp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 2009-09-07 18:37 index.html drwxr-xr-x 9 martin martin 4096 2009-11-12 15:45 martin drwxr-xr-x 4 ngonie users 4096 2009-11-12 15:45 ngonie drwxr-xr-x 2 squid squid 4096 2009-10-30 11:21 squid drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-11-02 06:45 webalizer drwxr-xr-x 6 webmail-martinology.selfip.org webmail-martinology.selfip.org 4096 2009-11-07 23:41 webmail-martinology.selfip.org Enter a shell command to execute in the text field below. The cd command may be used to change directory for subsequent commands. Code: > ls -la /var/www total 44 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2009-11-07 23:41 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2009-09-07 21:07 .. -rw------- 1 root root 0 2009-09-07 20:36 aquota.user drwxr-xr-x 4 dalitso users 4096 2009-11-05 12:43 dalitso drwxr-xr-x 3 demster users 4096 2009-11-12 15:45 demster drwxrwxrwx 3 ftp nogroup 4096 2009-10-27 20:58 ftp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45 2009-09-07 18:37 index.html drwxr-xr-x 9 martin martin 4096 2009-11-12 15:49 martin drwxr-xr-x 4 ngonie users 4096 2009-11-12 15:45 ngonie drwxr-xr-x 2 squid squid 4096 2009-10-30 11:21 squid drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-11-02 06:45 webalizer drwxr-xr-x 6 webmail-martinology.selfip.org webmail-martinology.selfip.org 4096 2009-11-07 23:41 webmail-martinology.selfip.org Code: root@wani:~# nano /etc/fstab GNU nano 2.0.7 File: /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda1 UUID=8c30055e-5ee8-4d45-85cd-3842c307bbd5 / ext3 relatime,erro$ # /dev/sda2 UUID=b64a58e9-207f-4268-9046-6f168ecf8728 /home ext3 suid,resgid=1002,dev,re$ # /dev/sda5 UUID=67db335f-da38-40ee-b0cf-67e607bf5727 /share ext3 relatime $ # /dev/sda3 UUID=dd993637-3f4e-4074-9597-83cf8e812834 none swap sw $ /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 /var/www /home none bind According to the outputs from commands "mount" and "fstab" it shows that /home is linked to /var/www I did some digging and found out that "virtualmin" a webmin module is responsible for that. If virtualmin is installed by a webmin module file, it cannot use /home so a link between /home and /var/www has to exist. If installed with a script (something like virtualmin.sh) this problem is taken care of. (not sure if the link is still made during the script install as well) Thank you very much for your help; the commands you suggested really nailed down the problem.
