Suppose you manage a box with 300 containers, all on autostart=1. One day
you reboot the box but you need to avoid all the contaoners to start. There
should be a command like
lxc-cancel-autostart.
Does it make sense?


On Friday, August 8, 2014, Harald Dunkel <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am not familiar with Ubuntu's setup, but assuming it supports
> sysv-init I would suggest to omit lxc in a dedicated run level.
>
> If your default run level is 2 (specified in /etc/inittab), then
> you could use update-rc.d to omit lxc in run level 3, e.g.
>
>         # update-rc.d lxc start 20 2 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 3 6 .
>
> This means lxc is started in run levels 2, 4 and 5, and
> stopped in 0, 1, 3 and 6.
>
> If you need to boot without starting the containers, then you
> can choose run level 3 on the kernel command line at boot time,
> e.g.
>         linux /boot/vmlinuz root= ... quiet 3
>
> grub2 allows you to modify the kernel command line before booting.
> Using telinit you can change the run level at run time, e.g.
> 'telinit 2' to switch to run level 2 (to start your containers).
>
>
> Hope this helps
> Harri
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