Re: [Vserver] The $64,000 dollar question

2007-08-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: snip / So the big question is which (preferably YUM-able) distribution should I use for the host? I'm currently thinking CentOS 5 as it has an end-of-life in about 5 years. I hope to be retired by then. :-) Plus I believe I read

[Vserver] Vserver copy. The saga continues!

2007-07-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
The builds using rsync are going well but this has created a bit of a problem. Typically I build using yum as the method. This creates all the necessary files in /etc/vservers/guest/apps. Using rsync doesn't. Is there a command/incantation to convert a vserver guest to another

Re: [Vserver] Vserver copy. The saga continues!

2007-07-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Chuck wrote: On Thursday 12 July 2007 13:55, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: if i use vserver build with its rsync options it makes the /etc/vserver/guest directory for me just like any other build using vserver. are you using rsync by itself? maybe thats why. the vserver application

Re: [Vserver] The $64,000 dollar question

2007-07-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Thanks to all for your help and suggestions on copying Vserver guests. So far it has worked quite well. I'm now on to newer things which brings me to the question. What distribution should I use for the Host? With Daniel's excellent

[Vserver] Hosts and Guests and NTP; oh my.

2007-07-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I need to provide time services for the local network (less than 50 servers, workstations and Windows boxes) and since that is pretty lite weight I'm thinking of putting it into the guest that will be handling DNS queries. But ... I'm pretty sure a guest normally can't change the system clock

Re: [Vserver] Hosts and Guests and NTP; oh my.

2007-07-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Chuck wrote: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:07, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I need to provide time services for the local network (less than 50 servers, workstations and Windows boxes) and since that is pretty lite weight I'm thinking of putting it into the guest that will be handling DNS queries

[Vserver] fuse ( sshfs ) in guests

2007-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Before I start messing around with systems is anyone running fuse-sshfs from inside a guest? I see the fuse module, so I assume :-), all I need to do is get it loaded then install fuse-sshfs, fuse, fuse-libs into a guest. I am a little concerned that fuse and fuse-libs might clash with the

Re: [Vserver] FC5 End of Life and Linux-Vserver

2007-05-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: With the announcement of the EOL for Fedora Core 5 I'm wondering where I should go next or if I should go ... next? So actually this is more a question for Daniel Zakrisson since he provides the FC5 vserver kernel and vserver-utils

[Vserver] Catalyst Framworks (perl not CISCO) and Vserver

2007-05-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
This is going to be very vague but please bear with me. We just rebooted into a new kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5.vs2.2.0.1smp and now the Catalyst test servers (http) will not automagically restart correctly when they detects changes in the .pm files. I see the message it has noticed the changed

[Vserver] FC5 End of Life and Linux-Vserver

2007-05-17 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
With the announcement of the EOL for Fedora Core 5 I'm wondering where I should go next or if I should go ... next? So actually this is more a question for Daniel Zakrisson since he provides the FC5 vserver kernel and vserver-utils RPMs and the repository. How long do you think you'll keep

Re: [Vserver] CIFS-mounts in vserver guests: solved

2007-04-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Wilhelm Meier wrote: Am Montag, 2. April 2007 schrieb Wilhelm Meier: after our conversion I got the quick cifs hack running (using a special CLONE-flag for the cifs-thread). The I got this patch, which changes the api to kthread_run. But, the problem remains. I still got this error in dmesg:

Re: [Vserver] FC5 Linux-Vserver ( gotcha ).

2007-01-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I found another slight gotcha in the install process. I think the following is the fix. After: A. Installing the vserver utilities system from rpm Need to run the command: service vprocunhide start And in the future (util

[Vserver] OSCON 2007?

2007-01-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Anyone planning on attending OSCON in 2007? Anyone planning a presentation on Linux-Vserver? Where do we go and who do we talk to about this? My assumption is it would cost too much for an individual or their company to pay on their own for most of the active developers. Rod --

Re: [Vserver] setting time out on vserver stop

2007-01-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I keep loosing track of who does/has done what. Another point to to clarify is if there is still the issue with the pam modules. Section 5, third bullet. On FC6? I haven't verified it there, but (on FC5) the module will log

[Vserver] FC5 Linux-Vserver ( gotcha ).

2007-01-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I found another slight gotcha in the install process. I think the following is the fix. After: A. Installing the vserver utilities system from rpm Need to run the command: service vprocunhide start Rod -- ___ Vserver mailing list

Re: [Vserver] setting time out on vserver stop

2007-01-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I'm migrating a FC5 system to a Linux-Vserver and found while following the directions that the latest non-vserver kernel is newer than one in your repository. Yeah. I was hoping FC5 would get a 2.6.19 kernel based RSN, but it seems

Re: [Vserver] setting time out on vserver stop

2007-01-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Guenther Fuchs wrote: Hi there, on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 1:03:25 PM there was posted: jmp NB: jmp Did you plan to make a quickstart for vserver fedora core 6 in jmp the near future ? jmp The formers were great and usefull ... as the formers where written by me I take this as my task

Re: [Vserver] setting time out on vserver stop

2007-01-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: jean-marc pouchoulon wrote: snip / The instructions from FC5 should basically apply, but I suppose migrating the howto to the new wiki and updating it to cover FC6 would be a good idea. I'm migrating a FC5 system to a Linux-Vserver and found while following

[Vserver] Socket Access ... I think

2006-12-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm trying to install and use, in a vserver guest, a perl module ( IO::All ) and it keeps failing a test and when I skip the tests and just do an install it still doesn't work. Looking at the tests I see lots of socket stuff. Short ( easy ) question is has anyone installed IO::All in a

Re: [Vserver] Socket Access ... I think

2006-12-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:00:15PM -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I'm trying to install and use, in a vserver guest, a perl module (IO::All ) and it keeps failing a test and when I skip the tests and just do an install it still doesn't work. Looking at the tests I see

[Vserver] Vserver host and CORAID

2006-12-01 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I can't talk the sysadmin into letting me take one of our CORAID boxes home for testing :-) so I'll ask here. Anyone using a CORAID (http://www.coraid.com) device with Linux-Vservers? Rod -- ___ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org

Re: [Vserver] Network local to vserver host and guests?

2006-11-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Christian Affolter wrote: Hi! I build and use vservers where the guests need to cooperate with each other. That is, a system with with guests running Postfix, PostgreSQL, or Apache ( multiple guests as they are mod_perl driven ) and they all need to communicate with each other. So I want

Re: [Vserver] vserver + squid + squidguard

2006-10-27 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Alejandro Cabrera Obed wrote: Hi people, sorry to bother you but I have an squidguard error I don't know, possible vserver configurationn ??? I tell you what I have: * vserver with localhost mapping to a non-routable IP * Squid + Squidguard * In squid.conf: I replaced all the 127.0.0.1 and

Re: [Vserver] having a routing problem from guests

2006-09-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Taking this a step further I'm trying to do something similar and getting _strange_ results. Using totally fake IPs here is what I'm trying to set up. ( As typing this I see Chuck just posted to the thread with similar information. ) Host system with three NICs: eth0, eth1, eth2. Fedora

Re: [Vserver] having a routing problem from guests

2006-09-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Chuck wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 11:53, Chuck wrote: [snip] Lastly iptables is pretty open. The problem is that though I can ping from a different network to both of the host's to IPs and I can ping out from the three guests that use eth0 and I can ping the eth1 guest from a eth0

Re: [Vserver] FC5 Install note.

2006-09-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Guenther Fuchs wrote: Hi there, on Friday, September 8, 2006 at 8:37:04 PM there was posted: RAA If you are using Daniel's repository for a system that you built awhile RAA ago you should edit your /etc/yum/repos.d/fedora-updates.repo file and RAA add yum to

Re: [Vserver] FC5 Install note.

2006-09-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
John Francis Lee wrote: Yes, it's just documentation... but I'd never know about Danlle and Bertl's good coding if I hadn't had your help getting it up and running so easily. Thank you Guenther. Thank you Daniel. Thank you Bertl. Thank you Herbert. Reference my previous post: I forgot to

Re: [Vserver] clean-up hash directory

2006-09-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Corey Wright wrote: i was curious if vhashify cleaned up after itself (delete orphaned instances of files in hash directory), and it appears it doesn't. these commands should do the job. well, technically this just lists files with a hardlink count of 1 and prints the total size in bytes of all

[Vserver] listing of --bind mounts

2006-08-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
It appears I'm clueless on this but I have RFTM or at least the man page for the mount command but still don't see a method. How do I get a listing of all the --bind (from /etc/vservers/$GUEST/fstab ) mounts from the host? All I'm seeing is the regular mounts; partitions, nfs, etc. TIA,

Re: [Vserver] listing of --bind mounts

2006-08-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: It appears I'm clueless on this but I have RFTM or at least the man page for the mount command but still don't see a method. How do I get a listing of all the --bind (from /etc/vservers/$GUEST/fstab ) mounts from the host? All I'm

Re: [Vserver] listing of --bind mounts

2006-08-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Stephan Mueller wrote: * Roderick A. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [24.08.2006]: It appears I'm clueless on this but I have RFTM or at least the man page for the mount command but still don't see a method. How do I get a listing of all the --bind (from /etc/vservers/$GUEST/fstab ) mounts from

Re: [Vserver] failed on vyum gast -- install yum :-(

2006-07-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: jehan procaccia wrote: snip / I had also change fedora repositories to point to our local mirrors so I wasn't sure which of these 2 actions resolved my problem, now I'am pretty sure that starting the guest was the good one

Re: [Vserver] failed on vyum gast -- install yum :-(

2006-07-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: jehan procaccia wrote: snip / I had also change fedora repositories to point to our local mirrors so I wasn't sure which of these 2 actions resolved my problem, now I'am

Re: [Vserver] failed on vyum gast -- install yum :-(

2006-07-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: jehan procaccia wrote: snip / I had also change fedora repositories to point to our local mirrors so I wasn't

Re: [Vserver] vserver-copy failing

2006-07-19 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Henrik Woffinden wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to make vserver-copy work? It looks like it does everything, but the network interface name isn't created. Creating every vserver via build and downloading packages online is not an option since they all need to be 100% identical (obviosly

Re: [Vserver] UN - vhashify - ing

2006-07-13 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Corey Wright wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:53:51 -0700 Roderick A. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a neat trick to un-hashify a guest? find / -type f \ | while read FILE; do cp -av ${FILE} ${FILE}.remove-hashification rm ${FILE} mv ${FILE}.remove-hashification ${FILE

[Vserver] UN - vhashify - ing

2006-07-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Is there a neat trick to un-hashify a guest? Nothing I can find on the site or using google. Well actually I found one of my previous messages asking about this. Not really sure why I'd want to do this but the-powers-that-be might request it. It would probably help me understand better

Re: [Vserver] One more problem: vserver ethernet alias

2006-07-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Kathy Kost wrote: I posted this before but not sure it actually went to the list, being my first post. I am having troubles with a vserver (named www) in that when I add a 6th IP alias to it, it will not create the interface when the entire system is rebooted. And until I remove that 6th

Re: [Vserver] Cannot install yum on vserver guest on FC5

2006-07-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Henrik Woffinden wrote: Hello. I'm new to Vserver, and I've gone stuck during install of my first guest. I'm using : - Linux-VServer Test [V0.15] Copyright (C) 2003-2006 H.Poetzl chcontext is working. chbind is working. Linux 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5.vs2.0.2.0.rc24.1smp #1 SMP Sat Jun 24

[Vserver] vyum verbosity?

2006-07-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Is there a way to turn up the verbosity when using vyum? Looking in /usr/sbin/vyum and /usr/lib/util-vserver/vyum-worker I don't see anything to turn the verbosity level up. Specifically I'll looking for a method keep a ssh connection from timing out when it takes a __looonnng__ time to pull

Re: [Vserver] /proc/virtnet error

2006-07-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: While doing some clean up I was looking for remnants of a guest. When I ran: # find / -name '*vs666*' I got the following error message right away. WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/virtnet: this may be a bug in your

Re: [Vserver] /proc/virtnet error

2006-07-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: While doing some clean up I was looking for remnants of a guest. When I ran: # find / -name '*vs666*' I got the following error message right away. WARNING: Hard link

Re: [Vserver] /proc/virtnet error

2006-07-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: How would I ( can I ) go about correcting this -- besides rebooting the host or using other drastic measures? Well, you'd first have to implement it in the kernel ;) Ok, so for the guy that thinks of 'C' as the third letter

[Vserver] /proc/virtnet error

2006-07-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
While doing some clean up I was looking for remnants of a guest. When I ran: # find / -name '*vs666*' I got the following error message right away. WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/virtnet: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Since this directory has the context

Re: [Vserver] Stopping a 'noname' guest

2006-07-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: While playing about I forgot to stop a vserver before deleting it. Homw I have this 'no-name' guest running and can't remember how to stop it other than rebooting the server ( which has worked on other/old vserver kernels ). vkill

[Vserver] Stopping a 'noname' guest

2006-07-01 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
While playing about I forgot to stop a vserver before deleting it. Homw I have this 'no-name' guest running and can't remember how to stop it other than rebooting the server ( which has worked on other/old vserver kernels ). It is frustrating. I'm tryigng to create these from a remote

Re: [Vserver] vlogin error

2006-06-27 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: After making several copies/clones of a vserver I am getting the following message when I try to install yum ( for internal pkgmgmt ) using vyum. # vyum demo -- install yum vlogin: execvp(): No such file or directory You should

Re: [Vserver] Cloning/Copying ... again!

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Marcus Mülbüsch wrote: I'm trying to make copies of a Vserver guest. These will all be on the same system. ... Is this a good route or are there other methods that will be fast/safer/whatever? I was hoping that util-vserver would provide that by now, but as far as I know, it still

[Vserver] Wiki down?

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Is there an issue with vserver.strahlungsfrei.de. I keep getting timeouts and can't get the wiki to show up. While waiting on this; does anyone have some documentation handy on using vhashify and how it works? I've got my first 5 vserver guests created and want(/need?) to do this as most of

Re: [Vserver] Wiki down?

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Is there an issue with vserver.strahlungsfrei.de. I keep getting timeouts and can't get the wiki to show up. While waiting on this; does anyone have some documentation handy on using vhashify and how it works? I've got my first 5

Re: [Vserver] Cloning/Copying ... again!

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:37:26PM +0200, Marcus Mülbüsch wrote: I'm trying to make copies of a Vserver guest. These will all be on the same system. ... Is this a good route or are there other methods that will be fast/safer/whatever? I was hoping that util-vserver

Re: [Vserver] [x86] 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5.vs2.0.2.0.rc24.1works fine

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Guenther Fuchs wrote: Hi there, 4tr - newest FC5 rpm kernel (Daniels 2.6.17) works fine here: Whew! I just started a yum update at noon then went back to my day job. I would have just trusted Daniel's excellent work and rebooted the system ( remote about 35 miles away ). Now I can _just_

[Vserver] Cloning/Copying ... again!

2006-06-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm trying to make copies of a Vserver guest. These will all be on the same system. So far I have: Started with a FC5 Linux-Vserver install ( per http://linux-vserver.org/VServer+installation+Fedora+Core+5. ) The system was already running a stock FC5 install with some updates. I followed

Re: [Vserver] Friendly user interface to the vserver command(s)

2006-06-18 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:48:55PM -0400, Patrice Levesque wrote: I am trying to build a more user-friendly interface to the util-vserver commands. Similar to the linuxconf interface Jacques created for the vserver-utils. You may find recent Jacques' tools (they work

[Vserver] Friendly user interface to the vserver command(s)

2006-06-14 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I am trying to build a more user-friendly interface to the util-vserver commands. Similar to the linuxconf interface Jacques created for the vserver-utils. There was a semi-thread on this several months ago with a suggestion for using 'make menuconfig' and this would be find but I,

[Vserver] 502 error for http://rpm.hozac.com

2006-06-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm getting a 502 from apache ( The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. ) when I try to access via yum firefox from my desktop and links from a different network. http://www.hozac.com is fine; other than those of us with barely one language find it challenging.

Re: [Vserver] Multiple NICs, multiple networks: Revisited

2006-05-31 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I have looked at http://linux-vserver.org/Recipes; -- configuring routing for a server with two network interfaces and it makes sense but since I use sysv ( Redhat/Fedora/CentOS ) systems I'm not sure how to accomplish the same thing. That is at boot or network

[Vserver] Multiple NICs, multiple networks: Revisited

2006-05-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I have looked at http://linux-vserver.org/Recipes; -- configuring routing for a server with two network interfaces and it makes sense but since I use sysv ( Redhat/Fedora/CentOS ) systems I'm not sure how to accomplish the same thing. That is at boot or network restart time without user

Re: [Vserver] Hashification process ( not working? )

2006-05-25 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Despite following the instructions found at As a follow up I think I found the problem. Somehow I ended up with a circular link list. /var/vservers/.hash/.hash = /var/vservers/.hash Anyway it was getting ugly so I decided to remove the two guests and probably

[Vserver] Networking: inside and out

2006-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've ( thanks to everyone ) got a working Linux-Vserver and one guest. The current issues are I can't get httpd or sshd to start in the guest. This system is being migrated to L-V so has sshd and apache ( two VirtualHosts ) running currently. I have modified sshd_config, httpd.conf, and

Re: [Vserver] Networking: inside and out

2006-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Grzegorz Nosek wrote: snip / Open file limits? Missing CAP_NET_BIND or some other capabilities? Maybe a strace will be useful (should show you what is the exact error). Does ip addr show (or ifconfig -a) on the guest show the proper IP address? Possibility on the file limits. I'll research.

Re: [Vserver] Errors on stopping vserver

2006-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Fareha Shafique wrote: Hi, When I stop the vserver I get the following: Stopping sshd: [FAILED] Shutting down kernel logger: [FAILED] Shutting down system logger: [ OK ] Starting killall: Stopping sshd:

[Vserver] Hashification process ( not working? )

2006-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Despite following the instructions found at http://linux-vserver.org/alpha+util-vserver for vhashify I am getting error messages. Two vserver guests; test and site; ( with a few different packages and some modified files ) I have: mkdir -p /etc/vservers/.defaults/apps/vunify/hash

Re: [Vserver] Errors on stopping vserver

2006-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Fareha Shafique wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Fareha Shafique wrote: Hi, When I stop the vserver I get the following: Stopping sshd: [FAILED] Shutting down kernel logger: [FAILED] Shutting down system logger

[Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I am getting the following when trying to use yum to install packages. # vyum test -- install yum Can not find file for 'RPMSTATEDIR'; aborting I am up to Step #5 of the Fedora Core 5 Linux-Vserver install with a side trip to the FC4 page to get the patched yum information/link --

Re: [Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: snip / Well, everything is working fine here, with kernel-2.6.16-1.2123_FC5.vs2.0.2.0.rc21.1, util-vserver-0.30.210-14.fc5 and yum-2.6.1-0.fc5. Did you try without the patched yum? Maybe I was being too clever and installed before

Re: [Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I am getting the following when trying to use yum to install packages. # vyum test -- install yum Can not find file for 'RPMSTATEDIR'; aborting snip / Well, everything is working fine here, with kernel-2.6.16-1.2123_FC5.vs2.0.2.0

Re: [Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Guenther Fuchs wrote: Hi there, on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 6:42:03 PM there was posted: RAA I am up to Step #5 of the Fedora Core 5 Linux-Vserver install with a RAA side trip to the FC4 page to get the patched yum information/link -- RAA yum-2.4.1-1.chroot.fc4.noarch.rpm file. Don't use

Re: [Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I am getting the following when trying to use yum to install packages. # vyum test -- install yum Can not find file for 'RPMSTATEDIR'; aborting snip / snip id=2

Re: [Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: snip / I'm currently stuffing in a few of the suggested rpms (Step #5) then I'll give it a new whirl. Stuffed with what I think will do the job this vserver is for. Web server! Others on the horizon. Has anyone created lists of RPMs ( yup I'm one of those

Re: [Vserver] CentOS 4(.2) utils RPM/YUM repository [scanned]

2006-02-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Veit Wahlich wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 15.02.2006, 19:41 -0800 schrieb Roderick A. Anderson: This is what I get back. /usr/sbin/vserver: line 155: /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/vserver: line 155: exec: /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build: cannot

[Vserver] CentOS 4(.2) utils RPM/YUM repository

2006-02-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've spent several hours ( fighting? ) to get the Vserver utils installed and working on a CentOS 4.2 clean install. Getting the kernel built was easy. (Only took four tries with three being typos on my part. ) Util_vserver is a whole different issue. After a couple of snafus on my part I

Re: [Vserver] CentOS 4(.2) utils RPM/YUM repository [scanned]

2006-02-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Veit Wahlich wrote: Hi Roderick, Am Mittwoch, den 15.02.2006, 14:06 -0800 schrieb Roderick A. Anderson: So my request for a RPM or repository. I am running repositories for CentOS4 based VServer hosts and FC4/CentOS4 based guests: http://naturidentisch.de/packages/ Using the http

Re: [Vserver] CentOS 4(.2) utils RPM/YUM repository [scanned]

2006-02-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Veit Wahlich wrote: Hi Roderick, Am Mittwoch, den 15.02.2006, 14:06 -0800 schrieb Roderick A. Anderson: So my request for a RPM or repository. I am running repositories for CentOS4 based VServer hosts and FC4/CentOS4 based guests: http://naturidentisch.de/packages/ Using the http

Re: [Vserver] CentOS 4(.2) utils RPM/YUM repository [scanned]

2006-02-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Veit Wahlich wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 15.02.2006, 15:52 -0800 schrieb Roderick A. Anderson: Hold the presses -- just looked and I did find this site. The EXPERIMENTAL part kept me from jumping in. Also I like my little sister. Heh, well, this was initially an apt-only repository, yum

[Vserver] vs2.0 and Fedora Core 3

2005-08-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've returned after a week-end and a two day trip to wilds but was disappointed that my problems with vs2 had not magically fixed themselves. I've followed the instructions for FC3 -- http://linux-vserver.org/FedoraCore3_HowTo -- only deviating where versions are different and with the addition

Re: [Vserver] vs2.0 and Fedora Core 3

2005-08-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:16:37PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I've returned after a week-end and a two day trip to wilds but was disappointed that my problems with vs2 had not magically fixed themselves. lol ... Yes there was no magic

Re: [Vserver] vs2.0 and Fedora Core 3

2005-08-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Enrico Scholz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roderick A. Anderson) writes: I've followed the instructions for FC3 -- http://linux-vserver.org/FedoraCore3_HowTo -- Version number of util-vserver (0.30.205) is a little bit low in this HowTo; there should be native support

[Vserver] tagxid redux?

2005-08-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Well my questions ( which I'm shooting all over as I find a new place to ask :-) are: What is tagxid? Are there any problems with using this on a single partition ( well there is also a swap partition but no /vservers) hardware RAID cause any problems? There was a thread last November/December

Re: [Vserver] tagxid redux?

2005-08-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I have an answer. Well my questions ( which I'm shooting all over as I find a new place to ask :-) are: What is tagxid? Are there any problems with using this on a single partition ( well there is also a swap partition but no /vservers

[Vserver] Error -- E: Couldn't find package glibc

2005-08-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm still playing and have backed out the OpenVPS rpms to see what it takes to run vservers with vs2.0 and the util-vserver commands While trying to build a new guest I'm having problems. # vserver ref build -m apt-rpm --hostname=ref.tsmg.us --interface eth1:192.168.25.69/24 -- -d fc3 Renamed

Re: [Vserver] Error -- E: Couldn't find package glibc

2005-08-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote: it is missing on the repository/in the rpm list to get the guest installed from not on your host system ... I was thinking this but it seemd strange that such an important package would be missing. When I looked in the sources.list in

[Vserver] vs2.0 and the tools

2005-08-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I have built and installed a new kernel and nd getting ready to build the tools but have one question I've not seen asked or seen mentioned before. It is probably falls somewhere below stupid on the question scale. Do I have to have the new kernel running to build the tools? I can't reboot

Re: [Vserver] vs2.0 and the tools

2005-08-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote: I probably wasn't clear on this. given you do not disable legacy support, you can still use the legacy tools for your shiny new vs2.0 kernel ... There is a vServer 2.6.10-vs1.94 kernel running but nothing important guest-wise in on the system. if

Re: [Vserver] vs2.0 and the tools

2005-08-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote: hmm, you obviously didn't use the (mandrake) rpms from my page ... because they disable most of those ... It would be a first :-( for me ) to have a Mandrake RPM work on a non-Mandrake system. But I'm game. I'll give them a try. I read the README

[Vserver] My adventures with vs2.0 ... :-)

2005-08-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Well it seems I've found the same problem others have but no solution. It seems to be something about Fedora Core 3, SMP, and later kernels from pristine sources ( or in the case vs2.0 patched ). There were a couple of mentions of SCSI RAID devices also. This is a quad Xenon system with a

[Vserver] util-vserver docs

2005-05-27 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I ( think ) I went all over the site and wiki but never seemed to come across the documentation for util-vserver package. I could swear I found some last time I looked at it but no luck this time. Do I have to download and install it? TIA, Rod -- Open Source Software - You usually get

Re: [Vserver] Upgrade main server from 2.4 to 2.6 kernel

2005-05-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote: they are supposed to work out of the box ... Sounds good to me. Thanks. (if not, please let us know ;) I probably will. Rod -- Open Source Software - You usually get more than you pay for... Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache

Re: [Vserver] [Arch] i686

2005-05-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Paul S. Gumerman wrote: snip / Where do I find the test? I'll run it for x86_64 for you. I'm currently at 2.6.11.7-vs2.0-pre3. I'll run it and then upgrade and run again. snip / Linux-VServer Test [V0.12] (C) 2003-2005 H.Poetzl chcontext is working. chbind is

Re: [Vserver] [Arch] i686

2005-05-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote: For the slow ones in the crowd ( ie. me ) is there a vs1.9.5 patch for 2.6.11.8 or do you think the vs2.0 is close to stable? well, the vs2.0 _is_ stable per definition ... Yeah but whoms definition? :-) I'm game. I'll give it a shot this

[Vserver] Vservers and Rootkits

2005-04-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I have a vserver that has all the indicators that is is a victim of a root kit ( SucKIT ). In my readings so far I see that SucKIT is is loaded through /dev/kmem ( ie. it doesn't need a kernel sith support for loadable kernel modules -- http://la-samhna.de/library/rootkits/list.html ). This is

Re: [Vserver] CentOs distribution

2005-04-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Daniel S. Reichenbach wrote: IMHO for business projects you need systems where you can say they will run for two or three years without flaws. This is what RHEL offers with support and CentOS without support. And if you want semi-support there is whitebox linux

[Vserver] Strange new error

2005-03-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Suddenly I'm getting this error when I tryed to enter a vserver. After stopping it ( with lots of killall messages ) I can't start it now. Here are the specifics: Linux version 2.4.26-vs1.28 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.2-1)) #1 Mon Aug 9 10:27:57 PDT

Never mind -- [Vserver] Strange new error

2005-03-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. I have no clue as to what cause the error but after creating a new vserver , copying relevant files , renaming vserver directories and files ; all is well. Rod -- Open Source Software - You usually get more

Re: [Vserver] (no subject)

2005-03-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote: no, typically util-vserver will suit your needs quite well of course if you like the older (about one year) tools better (for whatever reason), then feel free to use them, they should work in legacy mode quite well ... I'll add that Jacques is

Re: [Vserver] PostgreSQL 8 in Vserver

2005-03-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Bjoern Steinbrink wrote: chcon is a tool to change the security context of a file, which is part of the SELinux stuff, about which I know absolutely nothing ;) So it's not linux-vserver related (i believe). It appears to be an issue with creating a Vserver from a

[Vserver] PostgreSQL 8 in Vserver

2005-03-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'll start here since the word 'context' came up when tried researching it. I have a Dual PII/250 with 512/MB Ram, Adaptec 29160 SCSI host adapter, IDE CDROM, dual NICs ( eth0 = LAN, eth1 = WAN ), Fedora Core 3 -- Linux version 2.6.10-vs1.9.4 ( RPM built by OpenVPS ). I created my reference

[Vserver] Netfilter automation tools.

2005-03-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm starting to hit the memory wall with the number and difference in type of netfilter (iptable) rules for the many different Vserver setup I have. While looking to add some logging rules and searching on da'web I came across an article comparing NetFilter automation tools. The one that caught

Re: [Vserver] RHEL3 - Rpm lockup when installing new vserver ?

2005-03-02 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote: pardon my ignorance, but what is cfengine? Besides Daniel Reichenbach's reply I'll add this is what is used for the new vserver utilities to hold configuration information instead of the VSERVER.conf and VSERVER.sh files in /etc/vservers. Rod --

Re: [Vserver] Utility Programs in Vservers

2005-02-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Thanks Herbert. Your insights are always useful and fun. Rod On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:15:32AM -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Well that's a pretty sorry excuse for a Subject but the only thing I could think of. :-) Short story

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