Running Bash Script when ...

[pakogah]

Dear All,

First of all I want to say Hi,
This is my first thread on cPanel forum.

Secondly I need your confirmation on:
I want to collect information number of domain added/deleted on my cpanel server using bash script.

From what I saw, domain get added or deleted when:
- new account created / restored / deleted
- addon domain created / deleted
- park domain created / deleted

I have search the net and manual for cpanel there are some function/script hooks that get invoked after above procedure run:

/scripts/postrestoreacct
/scripts/postwwwacct
/scripts/postkillacct
/usr/local/cpanel/hooks/addondomain/addaddondomain
/usr/local/cpanel/hooks/addondomain/deladdondomain
/usr/local/cpanel/hooks/park/park
/usr/local/cpanel/hooks/park/unpark

can I insert my bash script inside those hooks?
or is there any easy way? perhaps cpanel has a log what domain get added/deleted?

Thank you for your confirmation.
Looking forward for answer

[cPanelTristan]

There is a log for domain creation and termination for primary domains at /var/cpanel/accounting.log location which would handle this option:

- new account created / restored / deleted

This log does not handle addon, subdomain or parked domain creation and termination. For addon domains, you will get those logged to the error_log with this format for creation (but not for termination):

error_log:[2011-04-25 14:02:09 -0400] info [parkadmin] Creating Addon domain 'addondomain.com' on 'addondomain.maindomain.com'.

This does not occur for parked and subdomain creation or termination.

If you enable the following in WHM > Tweak Settings:

Log dnsadmin requests [?]

Log dnsadmin requests to /usr/local/cpanel/logs/dnsadmin.log

This will save a log of all zone creation and changes to /usr/local/cpanel/logs/dnsadmin_log location (of note, while the path is noted as dnsadmin.log, the actual file is called dnsadmin_log instead).

Thus, if you are wanting to use logs to find these instead of using hooks, you can try the above logs. It would be easiest for main account creation, changes and termination to use the /var/cpanel/accounting.log and for addon domain creation to use /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log location

[pakogah]

Thanks Tristan,
but unfortunately I didn't enable dnsadmin log. I will enable now and see what the output.

btw does list of the function / script hooks on my previous post is correct?
that they will be invoked when:
- new account created / restored / deleted
- addon domain created / deleted
- park domain created / deleted

and can I insert my bash script inside those hooks?

thanks b4

[cPanelTristan]

Those appear to be the correct files based on the documentation I've found so far. I am familiar with the /scripts/ files you note, but I am not overly familiar with the hooks files for the parked and addon domains, so I'll let a developer confirm if the information is otherwise accurate for parked and addon domains.

[pakogah]

jdhf99 at his thread confirm the addon and park hooks
http://forums.cpanel.net/f42/cpanel-...ks-125393.html

thank you Tristan for your confirm, I am going to have a test. and I'll update this thread later

[pakogah]

Okay I have tried it and here the result..

first you make scripts/hooks above if not exist before.
chmod +x the scripts/hooks so it's executable
then add your own bash script.
if you adding hooks: run /usr/local/cpanel/bin/register_hooks

# cat /scripts/postkillacct
# calling my own script
/root/scripts/hookcheck.sh AccountDeleted

# cat /root/scripts/hookcheck.sh
#!/bin/bash
date >> /root/scripts/hookcheck.log
echo $1 >> /root/scripts/hookcheck.log

one things odd, is that when I am restoring a cpanel account, it calling /scripts/postwwwacct before then /scripts/postrestoreacct. here's from my log

Wed May  4 20:08:50 WIT 2011
AccountCreated
Wed May  4 20:08:59 WIT 2011
AccountRestored

..just 9 second separated..
WHY??

[cPanelDavidN]

Was the account completely deleted from the system before you ran the restore process? If that is the case, what likely is happening is the restoration process is creating the account first (using normal, internal creation processes) and then applying the files present in the restore package. I would guess the delay is related to an Apache restart.

-DavidN

[pakogah]

Yes David, I am deleting the account first before I am restoring it.
Okay David, understood.

And case closed.

[pakogah]

I forgot, domain name also can be change on
WHM >> Account Functions >> Modify an Account
set by Primary Domain field.

does anybody know what script/hook executed after Account Modification??
or do I should wait until cpanel 11.30 ??
http://forums.cpanel.net/f42/blog-cp...-a-194431.html

Hook:
We have now added a “modifyacct” hook at /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/postmodifyacct and /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/premodifyacct. It will be passed all the new values for an account.

ps: I am using latest stable cpanel ver 11.28.xx

[cPanelDavidN]

Hi pakogah,

Yes, you will want the postmodifyacct hook. The postmodifyacct hook is only available in version 11.30 and beyond.

Regards,
-DavidN

[pakogah]

oke thank you David