On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 02:54:40PM -0300, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: > Installation via chroot can be very useful for embedded systems, and also > for diskless machines that boot remotely from a server and mount the root > via NFS. If a package is being installed via chroot running in the server > it does not really make any sense to try to stop or start daemons.
[...] > Now, all this can be avoided very simply by a line in the init.d/ script > for the daemon, checking that /proc is mounted. Since it will be mounted > on normal systems but typically not when using a chroot shell, it serves > as a flag to enable the daemon restarting procedure. FWIW, the Debian-amd64 HOWTO suggests mounting /proc in your i386 chroot too. (Though I don't know what the benefits are.) See: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id274246 I think this is a good problem to solve though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
