Well if you use it on rh7.3 with no ill effects it will probably work for me as well.
I have small bandwidth and must wait for night time to do the upgrade. I'll let you know how things work out. Thanks again for all your help. On à., 2003-12-23 at 15:48, James Noble wrote: > Hello, Yes it was a debian tool, I just like it, I have been using it on many > servers (we have more than 300 of them here) and never had a problem with the RPM > db, If you want to use something else instead, by all means, go ahead, and post your > adaptaion of the instructions to the wiki. > > James > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 12/23/2003 at 12:12 PM John Francis Lee wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >The server has a redhat 8.0 installation in the / partition and a > >separate partition mounted on /vservers to which I would like to add my > >vservers. > > > >Isn't apt-get a debian tool? Won't it confuse the rpm database? I have > >manually upgraded several packages from the fedora ftp site, notably > >openssl and openssh... but others as well. Will apt-get interfere with > >this? > > > >My sever is not accessible from outside. Thanks for the offer. > > > >And thanks for your continuing help and patience. > > > >On ., 2003-12-23 at 09:42, James Noble wrote: > >> No, I have not had that problem. is this a fresh redhat server, and did > >you do the updates with ag? > >> > >> I am willing to take a look, if your server is accessable, just set the > >login info, and mail to me directly@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> James > >> > >> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >> > >> On 12/22/2003 at 9:32 PM John Francis Lee wrote: > >> > >> >Hello again James, > >> > > >> >I reinstalled the rpms as you suggested and things went much better > >> >after that. > >> > > >> >But the installation hangs after some small number of rpms is installed. > >> > > >> >I have to kill the rpm process and delete and rebuild the rpm database. > >> >Then the same thing happens again. > >> > > >> >I had this problem initially when I was running install-rh8.0 by hand. > >> > > >> >Have you seen it yourself? > >> > > >> >I've upgraded to rpm-4.2.1. > >> > > >> >On ., 2003-12-22 at 14:21, James Noble wrote: > >> >> Hello, I do not know why, vservers seems to want it. > >> >> > >> >> if the rpm's were installed then you should have those files, try > >> >rerunning the instructions, and se if they show up > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Let me know if you have any more troubles, > >> >> > >> >> James > >> >> > >> >> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >> >> > >> >> On 12/22/2003 at 12:59 PM John Francis Lee wrote: > >> >> > >> >> >Hello James Noble, > >> >> > > >> >> >Thank you for your How-To. > >> >> > > >> >> >I'm following along, more or less, and am at > >> >> > service nscd start > >> >> > chkconfig nscd on 345 > >> >> >Why do I need the nameserver cache demon? > >> >> > > >> >> > pico /etc/vservers.conf > >> >> > (set BACKGROUND=yes) > >> >> >I don't have an /etc/vservers.conf > >> >> > > >> >> >I found a file named > >> >> > vserver-0.29/distrib/sample.conf > >> >> >but it looks as though it wants to source the same non-existent > >> >> >/etc/vservers.conf to which you refer. > >> >> > > >> >> > pico /etc/vservers/newvserver.defaults > >> >> >Neither do I have an > >> >> > /etc/vservers/ > >> >> >directory nor a > >> >> > /etc/vservers/newvserver.defaults > >> >> >file. > >> >> > > >> >> >Can you point me to copies of these somewhere that I might customize > >and > >> >> >make my own? > >> >> > > >> >> >Thanks very much for the How-To and for any further help you might > >give > >> >> >here. > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> >On ., 2003-12-21 at 20:31, James Noble wrote: > >> >> >> http://www.linux-vserver.org/index.php?page=New-Howto > >> >> >> > >> >> >> its rough, anyone who wants to can edit as needed. > >> >> >> > >> >> >> James Noble > >> >> >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> >> Vserver mailing list > >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> >> http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > >> >> >-- > >> >> >John Francis Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> > > >> >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >> >Vserver mailing list > >> >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> >http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> Vserver mailing list > >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > >> >-- > >> >John Francis Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > > >> >_______________________________________________ > >> >Vserver mailing list > >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Vserver mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > >-- > >John Francis Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Vserver mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver -- John Francis Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
