On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > I've got redhat installed but /dev/reboot hasnt been created. How do I > set it up manually. I can its a socket but not sure where its pointing
It's not actually a device. It's a named pipe created by the `rebootmgr' daemon in the host server. When `rebootmgr' starts, it creates: /vservers/foobar/dev/reboot and holds that pipe open for the period it is running (and listening for reboot requests). -*- -*- -*- Better long-term solution: I'm really hoping that somebody can test/update/adapt the `sys_reboot' stuff I hacked up several months ago so that `rebootmgr' and the client- side tools can go away for good: http://www.paul.sladen.org/vserver/sys_reboot/ The idea is just to hook the kernel's `sys_reboot()' kernel call--normally called by `shutdown/halt/init'--and instead cause a restart of that particular vserver, just like rebootmgr currently does (but without having to install and non-normal tools that aren't already installed). Help/ideas/eyeballs would be appreciated, [No Warranty, don't blame me, blah blah] -Paul -- War is inconsistent with Truth. Nottingham, GB
