Solved (was Re: [Vserver] Hidden nproc limit?)

2005-10-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:54:54PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > I'm trying to get a program called mooix running in VServer and it > seems to need CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, and I don't > understand why. > > The error if both are turned off is: > > Starting Mooix: moodmood: uids.c:125

[Vserver] Danger of CAP_MKNOD?

2005-10-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell
The app I want to run in a VServer, mooix, creates (among other special things) TTY device files. If I run it without CAP_MKNOD, I get: cp: cannot create special file `/var/lib/mooix/system/sessionmanager/sessions/item1/tty': Operation not permitted Unable to copy /dev/pts/10 to /var/lib/mooix

[Vserver] Hidden nproc limit?

2005-10-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I'm trying to get a program called mooix running in VServer and it seems to need CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, and I don't understand why. The error if both are turned off is: Starting Mooix: moodmood: uids.c:125: reclaim: Assertion `pid != -1' failed. Digging into the code, that line is ju

[Vserver] Configuration Documentation?

2005-10-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell
It seems that documentation on configuring a VServer is scattered far and wide. Most of the docs I've found refer to /etc/vservers/[server].conf, which apparently doesn't work anymore, at least according to http://www.nongnu.org/util-vserver/doc/conf/configuration.html That page has a lot of info

[Vserver] really odd possible networking problem

2005-10-02 Thread Chuck
i just correlated our ftp server on our web machine taking a very long time to respond and firing off our monitor warnings with a particular guest i am working on on another machine. when it crashes on stopping, the web server ftp goes critical. after i bring the guest back up and it works prope

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Chuck
On Sunday 02 October 2005 05:06 pm, Benedikt Boehm wrote: i used your new methods to make the template and then make a stage3 of my own and make a guest from that.. incredibly nice > On Sunday 02 October 2005 20:42, Chuck wrote: > > On Sunday 02 October 2005 04:41 pm, Benedikt Boehm wrote:

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Benedikt Boehm
On Sunday 02 October 2005 20:42, Chuck wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2005 04:41 pm, Benedikt Boehm wrote: > > ok cool thanks... one more quick one... > > > if i choose the latest 2005.1 standard p3 stage3 from the mirrors then > overlayed the guest baselayout is that sufficient or are there other >

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Chuck
On Sunday 02 October 2005 04:41 pm, Benedikt Boehm wrote: ok cool thanks... one more quick one... if i choose the latest 2005.1 standard p3 stage3 from the mirrors then overlayed the guest baselayout is that sufficient or are there other changes in the stage3 that i should stick with the older

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Benedikt Boehm
On Sunday 02 October 2005 20:21, Chuck wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2005 11:49 am, Chuck wrote: > > with these new versions of base layout and util-vserver, do we still need > to put this into a post start script? > > > vattribute --xid 3407 --flag ^37 > > or is that now not needed? it is not nee

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Chuck
On Sunday 02 October 2005 11:49 am, Chuck wrote: with these new versions of base layout and util-vserver, do we still need to put this into a post start script? vattribute --xid 3407 --flag ^37 or is that now not needed? > On Sunday 02 October 2005 10:46 am, Christian Heim wrote: > > On Su

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Chuck
On Sunday 02 October 2005 10:46 am, Christian Heim wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2005 15:48, Chuck wrote: > > wrong terminology im sure :) the ability to set mark files and their > > contents. > You mean the context tagging of files by any chance ?! > no.. i dont know how long mark files have bee

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Christian Heim
On Sunday 02 October 2005 15:48, Chuck wrote: > wrong terminology im sure :) the ability to set mark files and their > contents. You mean the context tagging of files by any chance ?! > where can i find the differences between the 2 base layouts? i am getting Well, the 1.12.0_pre stuff is AFAIK a

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Chuck
On Sunday 02 October 2005 09:38 am, Christian Heim wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2005 15:15, Chuck wrote: > > > > > > i need reliability more than 'bleeding edge' however i do need things like > > exec inside a guest from host and abilities to flag various hosts to > > autostart and things like th

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Christian Heim
On Sunday 02 October 2005 15:15, Chuck wrote: > > > i need reliability more than 'bleeding edge' however i do need things like > exec inside a guest from host and abilities to flag various hosts to > autostart and things like that. we have no 64 bit guests or hosts so ... "exec" as in vserver ${n

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Christian Heim
On Sunday 02 October 2005 15:19, Chuck wrote: > the only reason i use vanilla kernels now is i have found on my > workstations and servers a noticable increase in performance using vanilla > over the gentoo-sources. i believe it is due to all the extra patches that > i dont use anyway :) > > is the

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Chuck
On Sunday 02 October 2005 08:31 am, Christian Heim wrote: > > > > 2. if so what are the latest versions of the above? > * latest kernel patch is at 2.1.0_rc2 (IIRC) >- for Gentoo that is =vserver-sources-2.1.0_rc2 (~x86) > incorporating kernel-2.6.13.2 and vs2.1.0_rc2 > the only rea

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Chuck
On Sunday 02 October 2005 08:31 am, Christian Heim wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2005 13:59, Chuck wrote: > > I guess my question is more than one :) . > > > > 1. is the stop bug fixed > Yes, in the latest baselayout-vserver they're fixed. > That means you've currently to do the following inside yo

Re: [Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Christian Heim
On Sunday 02 October 2005 13:59, Chuck wrote: > I guess my question is more than one :) . > > 1. is the stop bug fixed Yes, in the latest baselayout-vserver they're fixed. That means you've currently to do the following inside your guests: # echo '=sys-apps/baselayout-vserver-1.11.13-r1 ~x86 \ >> /

[Vserver] gentoo stop fix? and final production guidance requested.

2005-10-02 Thread Chuck
i am currently using the "Bertl-Shep" stop fix which appears to be working for the most part. Is there a permanent cure for this now? I am currently using the following versions latest as of 2 weeks ago gentoo 2005.1 install on host. kernel 2.6.13.1 vanilla sources from kernel.org with patch-2