[Vserver] creating vserver from template directory

2005-01-27 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Folks, I have a question on building new vserver... My scenario: I have /vservers/template with a ready-to-run Suse inside and want to create new vServer instance from it. So this means copying over the whole directory to a new one, modifiy some configfiles inside and create a config entry

[Vserver] issuing /sbin/reboot within a vserver reboots the host system...

2005-01-27 Thread Torsten Kurbad
Hi! I'm running linux-2.4.28-vs1.2.10 on a Gentoo-System and recently upgraded to util-vserver-0.30.196. Since /dev/reboot is gone now in the vserver (Gentoo uses devfs), I can't use vreboot anymore. On the other hand, typing reboot inside a vserver reboots the whole machine, which is

Re: [Vserver] issuing /sbin/reboot within a vserver reboots the host system...

2005-01-27 Thread Bjoern Steinbrink
On 2005.01.27 15:18:35 +0100, Torsten Kurbad wrote: Hi! I'm running linux-2.4.28-vs1.2.10 on a Gentoo-System and recently upgraded to util-vserver-0.30.196. Since /dev/reboot is gone now in the vserver (Gentoo uses devfs), I can't use vreboot anymore. On the other hand, typing reboot

Re: [Vserver] Startup Scripts...

2005-01-27 Thread Bjoern Steinbrink
On 2005.01.19 20:55:16 +0100, Oliver Welter wrote: Hi Folks, what is the right place to put some startup scripts that are executed on start/stop of a vserver from the rot context ? I use mount --bind to share some directories of the root-fs inside the vserver and want these to be setup

Re: [Vserver] issuing /sbin/reboot within a vserver reboots the host system...

2005-01-27 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:18:35PM +0100, Torsten Kurbad wrote: Hi! I'm running linux-2.4.28-vs1.2.10 on a Gentoo-System and recently upgraded to util-vserver-0.30.196. Since /dev/reboot is gone now in the vserver (Gentoo uses devfs), I but you should never us it inside a vserver, as

Re: [Vserver] issuing /sbin/reboot within a vserver reboots the host system...

2005-01-27 Thread Torsten Kurbad
Herbert Poetzl: but you should never us it inside a vserver, as devfs gives you access to _all_ devices present on your system, which basically allows any vserver root user to do whatever he likes with your harddisks (and more) ... I stopped it and created the device nodes you suggested. The

Re: [Vserver] issuing /sbin/reboot within a vserver reboots the host system...

2005-01-27 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:38:08PM +0100, Torsten Kurbad wrote: On Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 9:25:52 PM, Herbert Poetzl wrote: I guess the 'reboots the host' issue is gone now, right? Yes, that is accomplished now. Thanks! next step is to use 'reboot -f' instead of reboot, if you

Re: [Vserver] Failed to start vserver on Gentoo

2005-01-27 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:35:16PM +0100, Werner Schalk wrote: Hi, I tried to install vserver on Gentoo using the howto on the Gentoo website as well as a document in the vserver wiki. When I now try to start my vserver I get the following error messages: # vserver -v gentoo-template

[Vserver] Guest Images

2005-01-27 Thread Martin List-Petersen
For all those, who are interested. I've taken some time and made all guest images available, that I'm currently using. They've been updated one by one during the last days, so they are quite recent versions of the distibutions. Images available are Debian Woody, Debian Sarge, Fedora Core 2,

Re: [Vserver] Guest Images

2005-01-27 Thread Oliver Welter
Hi Martin, Images available are Debian Woody, Debian Sarge, Fedora Core 2, Mandrake 9.2, Redhat 9, Slackware 10, SuSE 9.2 I have a note on your comment on the page - I had also problems with yast and you, for updating my vServer I now use the fou4s commandline tool (http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/).

Re: [Vserver] Guest Images

2005-01-27 Thread Martin List-Petersen
On fre, 2005-01-28 at 08:20 +0100, Oliver Welter wrote: Hi Martin, Images available are Debian Woody, Debian Sarge, Fedora Core 2, Mandrake 9.2, Redhat 9, Slackware 10, SuSE 9.2 I have a note on your comment on the page - I had also problems with yast and you, for updating my vServer I