/Home duplicating folders to /var/www and transparent proxy problem

[dalitso]

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.

[falko]

Originally Posted by dalitso

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?

Did you maybe set up a cron job that's syncing the directories? What's the output of

crontab -l

?

[dalitso]

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

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

[falko]

What are the outputs of

mount

and

ls -la /home

and

ls -la /var/www

? What's in /etc/fstab?

[dalitso]

Here are the outputs

> 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)

> 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.

> 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

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.