[Vserver] vServer on Suse 9.2

Hi Folks, Hello too all first - I am new to the vserver stuff and going mad, so please be patient if this is a stupid question, but I habevnt fpund anything on the net I have a Suse 9.2 system with a vanilla 2.6.9 Kernel, patched with 1.9.3 vServer patches. First I tried the stable util's

Re: [Vserver] vServer on Suse 9.2

Hi Herbert, try with a different guest (i.e. vserver image) first probably the suse 9.2 stuff needs some adaptations to work ... you can find some images here http://www.lycos-vds.com/dists/ or create new ones with the alpha util-vserver tools ... ok the Fedora image is working. I tried to

Re: [Vserver] vServer on Suse 9.2

Hi Mike, Mike Fischer wrote: I had some problems with SuSE vserver. First of all, you will have to enable 'fakeinit' (I don't what the equivalent is in the alpha-tools). Without this, no processes are started on my (SuSE 8.2, 9.0, 9.1) Vservers. Then SuSE introduced some new bells and whistles to

Re: [Vserver] vServer on Suse 9.2

Hi Mike, I had some problems with SuSE vserver. First of all, you will have to enable 'fakeinit' (I don't what the equivalent is in the alpha-tools). Without this, no processes are started on my (SuSE 8.2, 9.0, 9.1) Vservers. Then SuSE introduced some new bells and whistles to fail on you in 9.1.

Re: [Vserver] vServer on Suse 9.2

hi Mike, Hmmm, something to do with 'initstyle' I'm guessing here, as I have avoided the alpha tools up to now. I use them becaus eI had even more problems with the stable ones and in the FAQ there is a clear statement - for kernel 2.6 use the alpha ones... I was unable to manage the

Re: [Vserver] Using vservers

Hi Lars, How do I manage firewall/iptables per vserver? Do I install it on every vserver, og is it possible to install on the host server? What solution is the easiest to maintain? As ip filtering is done by the kernel, as a vserver does not have a kernel you must do it on the main host.

Re: [Vserver] vServer on Suse 9.2

Hi Fadi, To Oliver: About fakeinit with alpha-utils, you have to create the file: /etc/vservers/vserver_name/flags In the flags file include a line that says: fakeinit That should do it. Aaa - great - now everything works as expected Look at the flower page (

[Vserver] Problems Shutting down a Suse vServer

Hi List, I use Suse 9.2 as Guest OS with Kernel 2.6 and alpha-tools, after enabling the fakeinit flag I can boot the server using the Suse standardscripts and the system works as expected. But I am unable to shutdown the server - it seems that the Stop-Skripts are not executed, so vServer

[Vserver] Debugging vServer Shutdown

Hi List, I am still investigateing why I cant shutdown my Suse Server - I get following behaviour: $ vserver suse stop vkill: vc_ctx_kill(): No such process Vserver '/usr/local/etc/vservers/suse' still running unexpectedly; please investigate it manually... vps ax shows the sshd process

Re: [Vserver] mount --bind inside a vserver

Dariush Pietrzak wrote: I want to mount the portage tree with mount --bind, but when I change into the context the mount is gone.. AFAIK, you need to do the mount-bind thing before starting the context. I don't know if that changed in new-2.6-vserver though A . Thanxs that works :=) Oliver

Re: [Vserver] Problems with mount on bootup

Hi Denis, I have a Gentoo-System with latest alpha-tools runningm setup with the Guide here http://home.xnull.de/work/gentoo/vserver/guide/ Everything works but I get anoiing errors when fireing up my vserver regarding the mount process... Kill fstab/mtab (make them empty) mount won't work

[Vserver] Symlinks vs. mount --bind

Hi List, I want to start a discussion about an easy way to unify sone systems... I have one maschine that hosts about 10 instances of on application. They differ only in some config files an a var directory where the data is kept. my Idea is now to setup a base install of the application and

[Vserver] Compiler-Options with vServers

Hi Folks, first of all Happy X-Mas to everyone :) I want to use vServer for creating a flexible Hosting environment. I have 3 maschines, the two primay ones are P4 Hyperthreading, the test/backup maschine is a Athlon XP. Every customer runs his own LAMP on Gentoo inside a vServer. I now want to

[Vserver] Syslog and vserver

Hi Folks, question on syslog What is the best way to use syslog inside the vServers - is it possible to have one Logfile on the main maschine that collects all information ? Whats the best way to do so ? Sharing a syslock socket ? Creating a syslog instance fpr each vServer and using

[Vserver] Slightly OT: problems with emerge -b on gentoo

Hi Folks I am running vServers with Gentoo Hosts and have a problem with the gentoo emerge command. if I understand correctly, than emerge -b should compile a package and put a zipped binary of the compiled stuff into the binpkg tree... Now I use emerge -bu system to update my first vServer

Re: [Vserver] Slightly OT: problems with emerge -b on gentoo

Hi Bene, Hi Folks if I understand correctly, than emerge -b should compile a package and put a zipped binary of the compiled stuff into the binpkg tree... Hm, don't know why no binpkgs are created, but did you try to put buildpkg to your FEATURES variable in /etc/make.conf? was my misstake - I

Re: [Vserver] Slightly OT: problems with emerge -b on gentoo

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 20:51 +0100, Oliver Welter wrote: Hi Folks I am running vServers with Gentoo Hosts and have a problem with the gentoo emerge command. if I understand correctly, than emerge -b should compile a package and put a zipped binary of the compiled stuff into the binpkg tree

[Vserver] Patches for 2.6.10 already stable ?

Hi Folks, The patches for 2.6.10 are only visible in the Experimental Download-Folders - are there suitable for production already or should I take a 2.6.9 kernel ? regards Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt

[Vserver] util-vserver build problems on AMD64

Hi Folks, I try to compile 0.30.196 util-vserver Tools on an AMD64 bit system. The kernel (vanilla 2.6.9 with vs1.9.3) is already running, the base system is a fresh Suse 9.2 x86_64 install and I get following error during util-vserver compilation: (./configre without any options) gcc -g -O2

Re: [Vserver] util-vserver build problems on AMD64

I try to compile 0.30.196 util-vserver Tools on an AMD64 bit system. The kernel (vanilla 2.6.9 with vs1.9.3) is already running, the base system is a fresh Suse 9.2 x86_64 install and I get following error during util-vserver compilation: (./configre without any options) gcc -g -O2 -std=c99

Re: [Vserver] Vserver basic setup

Hi Timo, One Question: I want to make a Suse Linux 9.2 vServer, but in the vServer Basic setup I only can make a suse9 server. How can i paste suse9.2 in the setup (Clone vserver )!! - create a vserver with build type skeleton - insert the Suse DVD - edit and run the attached script 3) open

Re: [Vserver] Vserver basic setup

hi Timo - create a vserver with build type skeleton run vserver servername build -m skeleton --hostname servername --flags lock,nproc --interface srv1=eth0:ipaddress - edit and run the attached script create a shell script from the lines below and run it - this will create a minimal

Re: [Vserver] Vserver basic setup

Timo Müller wrote: can´t i just paste something in the basic setup ??? Maybe but I didnt try - this is the easiest way I know Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat: http://www.ldv.ei.tum.de/page72 smime.p7s

Re: [Vserver] Vserver basic setup

Ok, Thanx !! But i don´t understand this way !! Where is your problem ? The vserver ? The Suse Sysetm ? Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat: http://www.ldv.ei.tum.de/page72 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [Vserver] qmails queue running inside vserver

Hi Lars, I'm running a qmail mail server inside a vserver and it works great using fakeinit so daemontools will work. I want to replicate the vserver, but since qmails queue is depending on the filesystem I guess the queue itself can't be replicated to another root server? Does anyone on this

[Vserver] Startup Scripts...

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 on the vserver start. Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde

[Vserver] lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /vservers

Hi Folks, I have setup a vServer (2.6.9-vs1.9.3 with dev-utils) on a AMD64 Box with Suse 9.2. Calling lsof INSIDE a vserver I get a warning: lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /vservers Output information may be incomplete. Any idea where the server pulls this directory out ? I

Re: [Vserver] lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /vservers

Hi Herbert I have setup a vServer (2.6.9-vs1.9.3 with dev-utils) on a AMD64 Box with Suse 9.2. Calling lsof INSIDE a vserver I get a warning: lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /vservers Output information may be incomplete. Any idea where the server pulls this directory out ? I

[Vserver] Confused about vproc security

Hi Folks, I am am little bit confused about proc-Security http://linux-vserver.org/Proc-Security tells me As of now stable defaults to all proc entries visible everywhere, development and experimental versions default to all proc entries only visible in context 0 As I use the alpha-utils

Re: [Vserver] webmin

Hi, i´ve installed webmin on my vserver ! But when I want to login with http://server:1 and i type in root and my rootpassword, he said the password is wrong but it´s right !! Have you ste the root-pw INSIDE the vserver ? Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public

Re: [Vserver] Confused about vproc security

That's because vps does not work within the 'root' context, but in context 1 (spectator), in which all processes are visible. ok that shades some lights on it I will have a closer look Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt

Re: [Vserver] Fwd: Re: [mglug] Aapache mod_ssl + vhosts

Hi Bene, Just FYI. util-vserver seems not compile on amd64 Bene I just setup a vServer on a Sun Fire Dual Opteron. Base-OS is a Suse 9.2 with a vanilla 2.6.9 and 1.9.3 patches I used the recent 0.30.196 alpha-utils from 13thFloor - everything is working fine Oliver -- Diese Nachricht

[Vserver] Adding IP Adress to running vserver

Good Evening alltogether :) I have search the Net but didnt find an answer... Is it possible to add/remove an IP address to/from a running vServer ? Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat:

[Vserver] creating vserver from template directory

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

Re: [Vserver] Guest Images

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] Linux-Vserver Networking Question

Hi Tom, Q3: Linux-vserver and linux 2.6. Is there a roadmap for getting it stable? Are there still many bugs in it or is 2.6 nearly production ready? I have 3 Maschines up and running in production with vserver on Gentoo with 2.6.9 - no probs until now I setup a test box with 2.6.11 which runs

Re: [Vserver] unable to run ntp on vserver kernel / drop root privileges not allowed

Hi Herbert, hmm - so I think I have to mod the sources as I cant find appropriate kernel config params... check for security modules and capabilities in particular Can you tell me what I must look for ? If you mean kernel modules - i have a monolithic one - so no modules are loaded at all

[Vserver] activate new mountpoint inside vserver w/o restart

Hi Folks, Simple issue I want to use mount --bind to mount some directories from outside into a running vserver. Actually I have to restart the vserver to make the new mount visible inside - is there any way to make the mount accessible without restarting the vserver ? Oliver -- Diese

Re: [Vserver] Suse Templates

Hi Dennis, just a little question. Have anyone in the List templates with suse? I just found a Suse 9.2 one but it do not work correctly. Maybe someone have done a 9.0 and 8.2? You can simply create these by yourself.. Open the file suse/setup/descr/Min-X.X on your Suse installation disk and

[Vserver] Execute ps for a selected vServer from outside

Hi Folks, is there anyway to show the processlist (ps ax) of a certain vServer from the MAIN context ? I tried vnamespace -e qmail ps ax but this executes ps in the MAIN Server. related question: What is the best wy to get a list of the names of all running contexts ? Oliver -- Diese

[Vserver] Gentoo Build fails

Hi Folks, I tried to update my Gentoo System and my util-vserver fail to compile The systm was running finde for about 8 weeks, yesterday I started a world update and the util-vserver ebuild fialed. Any Ideas ?? Oliver i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I ./lib -I

Re: [Vserver] Gentoo Build fails

I think you need to switch profile to 2005.0 (there's lots of documentation on the net about that), when you try emerging linux-headers it will merge the 2.6 headers. I did and this was the problem - I linked the 2.4 profile by mistake - should not do such work at midnight THX and sorry

Re: [Vserver] Is the VServer the right thing for me?

hi Oliver, Would you give anyone (that you don't know realy good) root-access to a (correctly configured) vserver, when the host-system is a sensible productive system? As there are a lot of companys outside who sell vServer's on their systems I think - yes you can ;) vServer has mulitple

Re: [Vserver] How to copy/debug a vserver

yup, usually (on non gentoo systems) it's simply done by default (i.e. disabling all but minimal services) but the gentoo recursive? service system makes it a little trickier ... but I remember folks who have done it ... There is a special eBuild vor vServer that patches the base-layout - see

Re: [Vserver] How to copy/debug a vserver

yeah I actually used the Gentoo vserver-specific baselayout to build my vserver image in the first place?! Is there a way I can check whether I got the right baselayout installed in my vserver? have you set the use-flag ? have you configured your port_overlay correctly ? Hmm, I dont know what

[Vserver] ELF Loader Bug exploitable inside a vServer

Hi Folks, serious problem: I read about the new BufferOverflow in the kernel's ELF Loader - it seems that an unprivileged attacker can start process in the kernels context.. Is it possible to gain root inside a vServer ? Is it possible to break out of a vServer with this Bug ? Oliver -- Diese

Re: [Vserver] ELF Loader Bug exploitable inside a vServer

Hello Herbert, serious problem: I read about the new BufferOverflow in the kernel's ELF Loader - it seems that an unprivileged attacker can start process in the kernels context.. details? - which issue? - what kernels are affected? - how does the 'exploit' look like? I reffered to the

Re: [Vserver] ELF Loader Bug exploitable inside a vServer

yup, but better upgrade to 2.6.11.9-vs2.0-rc1 ;) As I use this on *very* vital production machines - anyone here who can tell me if its working ;) Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat:

[Vserver] Start-Up Scipts

Hi List, I have a little problem with vserver Start-up scriots... I am running Gentoo Host/Guest with 2.6.9 kernel and vserver-tools 0.30.196 1) I have a vServer called wwwmain - I added a script wwwmain.sh in /etc/vservers/ but it seems that this is never executed.. 2) I want to create a

[Vserver] bind mount and performance

Hi List, as I have resolved all my technical difficulties I have a performance question: Scenario: I run virtual Webservers which share a single root but need their own var, webtree and etc trees. For Testing I setup this up like this: /vserver/base - contains the root /vserver/www1...X -

[Vserver] unify gentoo guests

Hi List, anybody here has some idea on how to unify gentoo guest servers ? Might it be a good idea to write a script that scans the servers, does md5-checksumms and than links similar files together ? Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key:

[Vserver] Limit load if necessary with vsched / token bucket question

Hi List, I read through the lists but wanst abel to find an answer... I have one maschine that is running up to five vservers. Now I want to achive that in times of heavy load the individual Servers get a minimum percentage of CPU time. So for example I will force that my very important

[Vserver] add new interface/ip to runnig server without restart

Hi Guys, simple question - I have an Apache running inside a vServer and now must add a new IP Adress to it. So i edited thte interface section in the configs as usual. Is there a way to commit these changes / activate the new IP Adresse without restarting the vServer ? Oliver -- Diese

Re: [Vserver] Limiting a vserver's ressources

Hi Werner, I now need to do a full backup as this is a new server. Obviously I will do incremental backups in the near future but not now :-) When you issue the rsync command form the source machine you can try a nice so it will not eat all your cpu. For other solutions dig the archives of

[Vserver] ntpd is not able to update local clock

Hi Folks, I have a problem with ntp running on a vServer Kernel - I dont know if vServer is the Problem but I dont have another idea... Im running gentoo with kernel 2.6.11.7-grsec2.1.5-vs2.0pre1 and 0.30.205 tools. I run openntpd, in the debug log I see reply from 62.94.26.10: offset

Re: [Vserver] ntpd is not able to update local clock

consider two guests 'adjusting' the hardware clock according to their idea of time? would it make sense to have guests which differer a few seconds? would it make sense to have 50+ ntpds running, one on each guest? probably not, that is why wall time is not virtualized and has to be handled on

Re: [Vserver] ntpd is not able to update local clock

Hi All, it seems that some ntp related libs were messedup - I unmerge all of them and installed the net-misc/ntp package which seems to work... Thanks anyway to all.. Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat:

Re: [Vserver] vserver startup problem

Hi Bastian, I followed this Howto http://gentoo.home.xnull.de/doc/en/vshandbook/ OS : gentoo util-vserver: 0.30.207 vserver-sources : 2.0_rc6 my error: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # vserver gentoo-template start

[Vserver] Auto-Restart after systemcrash / gentoo init-style

Hi List, today my host crashed du to some bad conditions...and I found a very stupid issue I run gentoo (host and guest) with 2.6 kernel and recent tools. The vServers are guarded by a heartbeat installation. Now my hardware crahed, the external server-watchdog rebootet the maschine and

[Vserver] Monitor Scheduler Ressources

Hi, I have setup a host with the Token Scheduler (http://linux-vserver.org/Scheduler+Parameters) - is it possible to monitor the buckets ?? Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat:

[Vserver] rlimit for memory usage

Hi, sorry if this is a stupid question but I cant find an answer I have a maschine with 3 GB physikal RAM What must I put into the rlimits/ directory to allow the vServer to use a maximum of 1.5GB ??? Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key:

Re: [Vserver] Monitor Scheduler Ressources

Hi Bene, thanatos ~ # cat /proc/virtual/23760/sched Token: 9430 FillRate: 20 Interval: 57 TokensMin: 3000 TokensMax: 9430 PrioBias: 0 VaVaVoom: 0 cpu 0: 4632928 32 925413 cat sched Token: 0

Re: [Vserver] rlimit for memory usage

Hi Helmut, well, you can certainly do that, and I guess most apps will handle that perfectly well, unfortunately there are certain apps which tend to allocate huge amounts of virtual memory, just in case they'll need it later on, and those will be really suprised, once they reach the RSS limit

[Vserver] Routing issue with multiple networks on host / vlans

Hi List, I have a stupid problem and cant track it down :( I have a host system running, that owns IP in two networks (realized via VLANs if it matters) So I have: eth0.1 - 10.0.0.10 (NetA) eth0.2 - 192.168.0.10 (NetB) The setup on the host ist running, means I can ping hosts in both

[Vserver] Problems with /dev on read-only mounts

Hi All, I am running into a problem with a read-only filesystem regarding dev. My root server has a read-only mount for the base-installation with a writable partition for var and temp, for dev I use devfs, so the ro mount is no problem. Now I try to do the same inside the vServer Guest,

Re: [Vserver] nagios monitoring - guest or host?

Hi Chuck, 1. Can I somehow set things up so a guest can execute a pre-defined command script on the host? This would allow nagios to do things like re-start a guest if it is not responding. There are some ways to do so: 1) The root Server can access the filesystem of the guest, so you can

Re: [Vserver] routing question

Hi Guenther, Now the prob: There should be set up _one_ host with also internal _and_ external IP (on eth0) which should externally use a different gw and also which should not change anything on the base setup. But if I activate _any_ external IP on eth0 the (previous) default route for eth1

Re: [Vserver] routing question

Hi Guenther, Interesting approach, but this breaks the thought of a dual-homed proxy I guess. Thank's anyway for thinking 'bout. What I would really love is a hack to get the networking done on a per-context basis but I guess this is a which for x.mas in 20 years ;-) Not really - If I

[Vserver] Cleanup after unsuccessful startup

Hi Listpeople, I have a question on cleanup in case of an unclean startup. I do some checks on the vserver environment in the pre-start Script. When they fail I kill the startup process with an exit call - is there anything I ave to cleanup (contexts, init prcess, etc) or is this done by the

Re: [Vserver] How do I enable SSH-server on my VServer?

Hi, I have successfully installed VServer on a Gentoo-box here, using http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vserver-howto.xml for guidance. This went fine, but now I'm wondering how to contact my virtual server via SSH... I have emerge-d openssh, but when I try to connect to the IP of the virtual

[Vserver] Probs after update world in Gentoo Guest

Hi Hollow, Hi List, I have several problems with my gentoo guests :( 1) I build a new guest from scratch using vserver-new with a stage3 tarball from your website, afterwards I did an emerge -u world. Running etc-update tries to replaced /etc/inittab with a version taht contains tty entries

Re: [Vserver] Probs after update world in Gentoo Guest

Hi Chuck, 1) I build a new guest from scratch using vserver-new with a stage3 tarball from your website, afterwards I did an emerge -u world. Running etc-update tries to replaced /etc/inittab with a version taht contains tty entries - no good ida I think... did you first run emerge metadata

Re: [Vserver] Nagios 2.x on a vserver. Anyone?

Hi, I think that this problem is related to the nonexisting 127.0.0.1 address. If I remeber correctly than nagios try to ping this address and cant reach it I think that I simply commented this check out in the scripts Oliver Evert Meulie wrote: (cross-post from:

Re: [Vserver] Hosting Vserver's on CODA or Lustre Distributed File Systems?

Hi, I run my vServer with DRBD - this means you can only have one actve mount at a time, but in case of failover it takes less than a minute to remount the backup node... Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt

[Vserver] possible issue with vserver-new / gentoo

Hi Hollow, I think I found an issue using vserver-new on gentoo... I tried to create a new Guest from a stage3 tarball - it failed for some stupid reasons and the script decided to remove the already created directories - unfortunatley it also removed the /dev filesystem inside the new

Re: [Vserver] Moving Vservers from one Linux machine to other .

Hi, Can anyone explain,how to move vservers from one linux to other linux machine?Without installing vserver related kernel and tools is it possible to start my vserver on new linux machine? You must install vServer Kernel and Tools on both machines How to copy my vserver within the

[Vserver] network config with VLANs

Hi Folks, I have some problems with vlans and vservers.. I have a box that has one physical Interface that hosts two VLANs, both are official Addresses and reachable from the Internet. The main host hast conectivity on both networks . 1) What should I but in interfaces/0/dev ? eth0 or vlan1

Re: [Vserver] can't access ssh

Hi Stefan, IIUC you can access the vServer from the host system, so the SSH is working ? Can you ping the vServer from outside ? Perhaps you have a problem with DNS resolution or so and cause a timeout on the connection because the guest tries a lookup on the connecting host... Try shutting

Re: [Vserver] VServer logo?

hi Alberto, cool work :) May I add a suggestion.. The checkmarks look so ordered - perhaps it gives a better impression to variate size and position of the checkmarks instead making this kind of matrix... Sorry I am not an artist :) Oli -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben

[Vserver] mountpoint blocked even with all context shutdown

Hi Folks, I am running some vservers and use one block device per server (in fact a drbd device, see http://linux-vserver.org/advanced+DRBD+mount+issues, Solution 1). Now I run into problems with UNmounting... If I want to unmount one corresponding block device and get an error, that

Re: [Vserver] mountpoint blocked even with all context shutdown

Hi Herbert, Hi Christian, you have to start 'thinking' in namespaces and avoid leftovers and unwanted 'copies' or duplicate mounts ... I do !! But as mentioned in my OP 1) The mount is done inside the namespace of the guest - it is not visible outside in the root and is not copied into later

Re: [Vserver] mountpoint blocked even with all context shutdown

Hi Grzegorz It might be a problem that the mount inside the namespavce is not cleanly freed when the startup/shutdown of the guest fails/hangs somewhere, but this is only a wild guess :( If you stop your guest in an unclean way (e.g. vwait times out), the namespace stays there (or at least it

Re: [Vserver] mountpoint blocked even with all context shutdown

Hi Herbert, Hi Christian, you have to start 'thinking' in namespaces and avoid leftovers and unwanted 'copies' or duplicate mounts ... I do !! But as mentioned in my OP 1) The mount is done inside the namespace of the guest - it is not visible outside in the root and is not copied into later

[Vserver] Screen inside vserver

Hi Folks, anyway who can point me to an idea how to use screen inside a guest ? When calling screen, it complains about the nonexisting /dev/pts/0... Can I safely create the device or will this be a security issue ?? Guest (and Host) is Gentoo, 2.6.15vs2.1 with recent utils regards Oliver --

Re: [Vserver] Screen inside vserver

eyck wrote: afair, you have to ssh into the box to use screen. vserver name enter and issuing a screen command does not work. it's not that it doesn't work, it's that it easier and safer to tell people 'just ssh into your guest' instead of explaining how to make it work. As I dont have SSH

Re: [Vserver] Screen inside vserver

Hi Guys, sorry for the hints - but dont make too much noise ,) seems to be not that easy... Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat: http://www.ldv.ei.tum.de/page72 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

[Vserver] Logo contest

Hi Folks, would be nice to have a central webpage with all logos or at least links to all logos. I had a look on the most logos send to the ML, but cant remember all of them and it is a hard issue to look for all the links in the archives.. So, perhaps we can setup a wiki page or so...

[Vserver] gentoo guest: strange behaviour after baselayout update

Hi Hollow, Hi Folks :) Today, I tried to update a very old gentoo guest, that was build with the old baselayout with use-flag from portage overlay. What I did, was to unemerge the old baselayout and emerge the new baselayout-vserver instead. On the first glance it seemed to work, but having

[Vserver] Firewalling with vServers

Hi Folks, I played around with vServer and Firewalls with netfilter/iptables My goal was to achieve a per vServer configuration that can be maintained easily. A first approach is the set of scripts you can download here http://www.oliwel.de/vFirewall.tgz It is a basic init-script that

[Vserver] Bug/Issue with Routing, Multiple NICs and vServers

Hi Folks, I encounter several problems regarding routing with a vServer host that has mutliple networks. I have a host which occupies three networks, my guest has IPs only in two of them resulting in the problem, that guest is unable to ping the third network under certain circumstances.

Re: [Vserver] vserver heartbeat?

Hi Evert, I just linked /usr/sbin/vserver to /etc/ha.d/resource.d and put into my haressources file: vserver::mail Works for me (gentoo, too ;) Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat:

Re: [Vserver] Re: vserver heartbeat?

me a private mail and talk to me on the IRC too if you want Oliver Oliver Welter wrote: Hi Evert, I just linked /usr/sbin/vserver to /etc/ha.d/resource.d and put into my haressources file: vserver::mail Works for me (gentoo, too ;) Oliver

Re: [Vserver] Re: vserver heartbeat?

Hi Evert, My setup has all (currently 6) vservers on 1 DRBD-partition (which is on 2 physical nodes), so I guess the symlinking would do in my situation? In this case, using the gentoo startup script would be the favourite idea - but dont forget to enable the guest for autostart ;) Using

Re: [Vserver] vserver hosting on server4you.com

Stay away from server4free. I've used both their dedicated server and vservers, and the latter product was awful. Service was nonexistent, and I was threatened with a suit when I demanded termination because of sever4free/server4u were defaulting on their part of the contract. I just can tell

[Vserver] Gentoo-Baselayout 1.20-pre8 broken ?

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Re: [Vserver] Gentoo-Baselayout 1.20-pre8 broken ?

Hi Chris, I downgraded to 1.11 and its running all fine now...so I guess there is a bug in the 1.20 release. Hrm. Never heard of such an error (an never encountered one ..). Which commands did you exactly run ? (AFAIR there was some magic needed, but not sure) Basically syslog-ng and sshd

Re: [Vserver] [FIxed] Gentoo-Baselayout 1.20-pre8 broken ?

that 1.20 didnt. If anyone is interested I can provide the used guest for testing Oliver Oliver Welter wrote: Hi Chris, I downgraded to 1.11 and its running all fine now...so I guess there is a bug in the 1.20 release. Hrm. Never heard of such an error (an never encountered one ..). Which

Re: [Vserver] DRBD mount problem wiki update

Hello Holger, FYI, I have just updated the wiki about the DRBD mount problem: http://linux-vserver.org/advanced+DRBD+mount+issues (Solution 4) Hope this is useful for some of you as well. uhh - this is a even more ugly hack than Solution 3 ;) But nevertheless - if it works... Oliver --

[Vserver] Logo Contest

Hi Folks, just wanna ask whats about our Logo-Contest ? So far I didnt vote - so Ill do: I prefer the Text with Checkmark Versions 3 to 10. I like 3 regarding the Font-setting but would suggest moving the v into the S and color it blue like in 10. :) Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital

[Vserver] Unifying Gentoo Guests

Hi Folks, eergh - it seems that vunify does not support gentoo guest. Anyone here can help me out ? Oliver -- Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt Basiszertifikat: http://www.ldv.ei.tum.de/page72 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

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