Fixing Permissions of Valiases

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Posted by Vanessa | Tagged under fixes,scripts | Posted on May 17, 2010

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I wrote this script a while back to fix the permissions of alias files in /etc/valiases when users were having trouble creating forwarders. You can also download the script in plaintext here.

#!/bin/bash
 # Script to fix permissions of valiases
 # Written by: Vanessa Vasile 5/17/10
 # http://thecpaneladmin.com
 
 for domain in `cat /etc/userdomains |awk '{print $1}' | grep -v "*" | cut -d: -f1`
 do

if ! [ -f /etc/valiases/$domain ]; then
 touch /etc/valiases/$domain
 fi
 
 user=$(egrep "^$domain:" /etc/userdomains |awk '{print $2}');
 chown $user:mail /etc/valiases/$domain
 chown $user:mail /etc/vdomainaliases/$domain
 chmod 644 /etc/valiases/$domain
 chmod 644 /etc/vdomainaliases/$domain
 done

Update: cPanel now has a script to allow you to do this:

/scripts/fixvaliases

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