Hi Giles, I would certainly be interested if you could send me that script. If you have any tips for using runit with qmail, that would be great!
Thanks Tim > Hi. > >> >> on a vserver, there is no true init process running. the only init >> process is >> the one which runs on the host. so modifying /etc/inittab in the vserver >> and >> attempting to instruct init to rescan it did nothing. >> > > You can have a separate init with the following config file: > > /etc/vservers/i386/apps/init/style > > which should contain "plain". > >> however, when a vserver starts up, it does kick off the appropriate >> sysvinit >> scripts for its desired runlevel. So i (dkg) wrote a simple >> /etc/init.d/daemontools script to start and stop svscanboot. i based the >> script >> off of /etc/init.d/skeleton. >> > > If you are going to run server programs that are meant to be supervised > (like djbdns and qmail), a nice possibility is to install "runit", which > replaces the usual System V init scripts, and provides a "daemontools" > look-alike interface. > ["runit" avoids the polemic about DJB software being free (as in > freedom).] > > http://smarden.org/runit/ > > runit really fits well with vserver. > If you are interested, I can send you the (Bash) script I use to create > Debian runit-enabled vserver guests. > > Best, > Gilles > > P.S. Supervision is not limited to be used with servers specially > designed for it (see the list of sample "startup" scripts on > the above site). [I installed vservers running slapd, postfix, > cyrus imap, heimdal kerberos, all supervised.] > _______________________________________________ > 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
