Hi Ola! On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:41:14AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:13:23PM +0200, Christian Mayrhuber wrote: > *SNIP* > > Vserver is relatively new on Debian and is not part of the > > stable distribution. It is only in testing and unstable for now. > > Those packages moved the /vservers directory to /var/lib/vservers > > in order to comply with the debian standards. > > You should be able to recompile the vserver .deb for stable > > by yourself. > > If you want precompiled you can find them on http://debian.opal.dhs.org/. > I usually place the backported version there when I upload a new > version to unstable. > > The move from /vservers to /var/lib/vservers was to comply with LSB > which RedHat and others wants to comply to as well. The neat thing > is that you can configure the location in /etc/vserver.conf.
is there some documentation about the changes/usage for debian? maybe a short how-to for setup or anything? > > Running vserver on debian is as stable as it is on any other > > distribution. It is very comfortable to build > > a new vserver with the newvserver-debian script from Paul Sladen > > and Mark Lawrence. You will have to edit it to suit your needs. > > There is actually a script inside the package nowdays. what about server unification, how was this solved? I would like to get some infos from somebody who actually runs a debian host/vserver combo, maybe with multiple similar vserver and unification? > Regards, > > // Ola > > > If you want to install a system to let it run once it's installed, > > good security updates without much effort and > > you do not need the latest software releases, then Debian's > > stable distribution is for you. what about security updates in regard of unification? any comments/infos are welcome ... > > > > I personally don't know Gentoo, or the latest RedHat/SuSE, I've > > never felt the need to try them after the > > switch to Debian 1.5 years ago. > > -- > > lg, Chris best, Herbert
