Hi John, sorry for being a few weeks late with a response. John P. Eisenmenger wrote:
Hmm. in v .21 of the vserver script the "fakeinit causes STARTCMD to be, literally, "/sbin/init". This does not work for my Gentoo system, though I think mine is based on Gentoo 1.2 and not 1.4rc1. My system merely generates a usage message for init indicating that is expects a runlevel designation on the command-line. Nothing gets started.
Same in Debian, unless you use: /sbin/init --init. Reason is, init normally check that it's pid really is 1. Option --init makes it skip the check.
// Tomas
