On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 01:25:06PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Sadly, man-db still spams. > The line you added is: > if ! grep -q 'envID:.*[1-9]' /proc/self/status; then > > but /proc/self/status doesn't include that envID line you're looking for, > neither on 2.6.18 nor 2.6.26.
This approach was provided by Karl Chen in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511771. I'm not familiar with these virtualisation systems so I probably didn't even realise that vserver and OpenVZ weren't the same thing. Can you provide an authoritative way to detect that we're in a vserver container, preferably with a reference? > I also wonder, perhaps it would be better to instead ask for having > start-stop-daemon hush nice/ionice messages when -q is given, as that's > more of an informative message rather than a real error. I CCed the dpkg guys on another similar bug today. It's certainly annoying to have to work around this in multiple places. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

