How to use hooks?

[blargman]

Could anyone clarfiy this for me? I am going to do some more testing on it but I was under the impression I could hook into cpanel and run arbitrary commands on certain actions.

I created /usr/local/cpanel/hooks/addondomain
then created a file inside it /usr/local/cpanel/hooks/addondomain/deladdondomain

It's a simple python script
#!/usr/local/bin/python
f=open('/root/test.txt', "w")
f.write('This is a test\n')
f.close

I thought this should run any time I delete an addondomain but it doesn't appear to be. I've checked everything obvious permisisons, execute bit etc. Am I just not doing this right at all?
I did forget to run registerhooks. I just did that though and not much more help. If I run the script manually it works fine. :\

[blargman]

I should note evidently it works fine on release but not current. Which I need unfortunately for the 11.25 xml-api functions.

[blargman]

I can get addondomain/deladdondomain to work on another 11.25 machine , so there must be something screwy with my VPS I'm testing with.

[blargman]

well I mv /usr/local/cpanel /usr/local/cpanel.bak && /scripts/upcp as there waas no reason i could think of to explain this and the logs weren't helping. This fixed it. We'll see what else this sledgehammer approach broke in the process

[nsetiono]

Could anyone clarfiy this for me? I am going to do some more testing on it but I was under the impression I could hook into cpanel and run arbitrary commands on certain actions.

I created /usr/local/cpanel/hooks/addondomain
then created a file inside it /usr/local/cpanel/hooks/addondomain/deladdondomain

It's a simple python script
#!/usr/local/bin/python
f=open('/root/test.txt', "w")
f.write('This is a test\n')
f.close

I thought this should run any time I delete an addondomain but it doesn't appear to be. I've checked everything obvious permisisons, execute bit etc. Am I just not doing this right at all?
I did forget to run registerhooks. I just did that though and not much more help. If I run the script manually it works fine. :\

do you only put that simple code on deladdondomain file or is there anything else you had add ?

[cPanelMatt]

What version of cPanel are you running?

If you are running 11.25.0 you will need to execute /usr/local/cpanel/bin/register_hooks

If you have CustomEventHandler in place, this may break usage with hooks.

Is your script actually executable?

Does anything come up in the error_log when this happens