Checking Configuration - a couple of questions

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#1 Sun, 11/13/2011 - 04:01
midol

Checking Configuration - a couple of questions

After making updates I ran check config and got the output below.

Question 1 : "The module could not find the mount point for your home directories filesystem /home. Quotas editing has been disabled."

cat /etc/mtab
/dev/simfs / reiserfs rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0

so it seems to be mounted ok. What should I do to enable quotas?

Also:

"Updating Virtualmin library pre-load settings .. Webmin server did not write new PID file"

What is the significance of this error?

Dave

Checking Configuration

The status of your system is being checked to ensure that all enabled features are available, that the mail server is properly configured, and that quotas are active ..

Your system has 7.62 GB of memory, which is at or above the Virtualmin recommended limit of 256 MB.

BIND DNS server is installed, and the system is configured to use it.

Mail server Postfix is installed and configured.

Apache is installed.

Webalizer is installed.

Apache is configured to host SSL websites.

MySQL is installed and running.

ProFTPd is installed.

Logrotate is installed.

SpamAssassin and Procmail are installed and configured for use.

ClamAV is installed and running.

Plugin DAV Login is installed OK.

Plugin AWstats reporting is installed OK.

Plugin Mailman is installed OK.

Plugin Protected web directories is installed OK.

Using network interface venet0:0 for virtual IPs.

IPv6 addresses are available, using interface venet0:0.

Default IP address for virtual servers is 69.90.112.112.

Default IP address is set to 69.90.112.112, which matches the detected external address.

The module could not find the mount point for your home directories filesystem /home. Quotas editing has been disabled.

All commands needed to create and restore backups are installed.

The selected package management and update systems are installed OK.

.. your system is ready for use by Virtualmin.

Updating all Webmin users with new settings.. .. done

Updating Virtualmin library pre-load settings .. Webmin server did not write new PID file

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 08:41
andreychek

so it seems to be mounted ok. What should I do to enable quotas?

Some VPS's don't play well with quotas, unfortunately.

You can tell Virtualmin to not use quotas by going into System Settings -> Module Config, and set "Quota setup for domain and mail users" to "No".

After that, it'll stop trying to set that whenever you create new Virtual Servers.

"Updating Virtualmin library pre-load settings .. Webmin server did not write new PID file"

You may just need to restart Webmin to resolve that -- you can do that by running this command as root:

/etc/init.d/webmin restart

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 13:55 (Reply to #2)
midol

no module config menu item under System Settings, what I show is:

Features and Plugins
Server Templates
Account Plans
Bandwidth Monitoring
Script Installers
New Feature Log
Upgrade to Virtualmin Pro
Cloudmin Services Client
Virtualmin Configuration
Re-Check Configuration

The restart went smoothly

Sat, 12/15/2012 - 09:09 (Reply to #3)
jaldeguer

Hello,

I am exploring the possibility of using a VPS, running on Open Vz. My VPS provider has already enabled quota capability.

Running the command below does indicate it is enabled. cat /etc/mtab /dev/vzfs / reiserfs rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0

When I ran configuration check I got this error message. The module could not find the mount point for your home directories filesystem /home. Quotas editing has been disabled.

I would really like to use quota limiting for my account plans. Do I just need to point virtualmin configuration to use /dev/vzfs instead of /home and where to change it?

  • Joe
Mon, 11/14/2011 - 15:49
andreychek

Hrm, you're right, that's not the correct way to find that option :-)

It's in System Settings -> Virtualmin Configuration -- and on that screen, you'll see the "Quota setup for domain and mail users" option.

-Eric

Sat, 12/15/2012 - 09:13
jaldeguer

Sorry for the double posts I just realized I posted the location incorrectly earlier.

I am exploring the possibility of using a VPS, running on Open Vz. My VPS provider has already enabled quota capability.

Running the command below does indicate it is enabled. cat /etc/mtab /dev/vzfs / reiserfs rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0

When I ran configuration check I got this error message. The module could not find the mount point for your home directories filesystem /home. Quotas editing has been disabled.

I would really like to use quota limiting for my account plans. Do I just need to point virtualmin configuration to use /dev/vzfs instead of /home and where to change it?

  • Joe
Sat, 12/15/2012 - 10:16
andreychek

Hi Joe -- can you post the contents of both your /etc/fstab, and /etc/mtab files? Thanks!

-Eric

Sat, 12/15/2012 - 14:18 (Reply to #7)
jaldeguer

Hi Eric,

Here you go.

cat /etc/fstab

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /run/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

cat /etc/mtab

/dev/vzfs / reiserfs rw,usrquota,grpquota 0 0

Sat, 12/15/2012 - 19:25
andreychek

Try adding that one line in your /etc/mtab file to your fstab. After that, does the configuration check work properly?

-Eric

Tue, 12/18/2012 - 18:59
Stryder

Please let me know if you get that working as I'm having the same issue with the quotas on an Open VZ system.

Tue, 12/18/2012 - 21:07
jaldeguer

I never got it to work using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, apparently there is a bug if you google it, it comes up. I tried the fix but I still could not make it work with virtualmin GPL or Pro. I tried it on two types of VPS, Xen and Open VZ same results.

Anyway I went back to using Debian 6 and using a Xen VPS and I did not have any issues with making quota work with Virtualmin. But let me add as a KVM VPS, Ubuntu 12.04 works well with Virtualmin GPL and Pro without any quota issues.

  • Joe
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