[Vserver] Util-VServer in @RISK The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert Vol. 5 No. 14

2006-04-19 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I noticed that Util-Vserver was reported with a SUEXEC Privilege Escalation Weakness in the April 10 report. I found nothing on the list about this back as far as late February. Is this report FUD, not worth worrying about, or I missed the whole thread on the list? ( https://savannah.nongnu.

Re: [Vserver] Util-VServer in @RISK The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert Vol. 5 No. 14

2006-04-20 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: It was discussed on IRC. How anyone can consider the host root entering a guest and executing a command as root as privilege escalation is beyond me (when in reality, you are dropping lots of capabilities, filesystem access, etc

[Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I am getting the following when trying to use yum to install packages. # vyum test -- install yum Can not find file for 'RPMSTATEDIR'; aborting I am up to Step #5 of the Fedora Core 5 Linux-Vserver install with a side trip to the FC4 page to get the patched yum information/link -- yum-2.4.1-1.

Re: [Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Well, everything is working fine here, with kernel-2.6.16-1.2123_FC5.vs2.0.2.0.rc21.1, util-vserver-0.30.210-14.fc5 and yum-2.6.1-0.fc5. Did you try without the patched yum? Maybe I was being too clever and installed before trying

Re: [Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I am getting the following when trying to use yum to install packages. # vyum test -- install yum Can not find file for 'RPMSTATEDIR'; aborting Well, everything is working fine here, with kernel-2.6.16-1.2123_FC5.vs2.0.

Re: [Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Guenther Fuchs wrote: Hi there, on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 6:42:03 PM there was posted: RAA> I am up to Step #5 of the Fedora Core 5 Linux-Vserver install with a RAA> side trip to the FC4 page to get the patched yum information/link -- RAA> yum-2.4.1-1.chroot.fc4.noarch.rpm file. Don't use

Re: [Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I am getting the following when trying to use yum to install packages. # vyum test -- install yum Can not find file for 'RPMSTATEDIR'; aborting It shouldn

Re: [Vserver] 'new' vyum(?) issue

2006-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I'm currently stuffing in a few of the suggested rpms (Step #5) then I'll give it a new whirl. Stuffed with what I think will do the job this vserver is for. Web server! Others on the horizon. Has anyone created lists of RPMs ( yup I'm one

[Vserver] Networking: inside and out

2006-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've ( thanks to everyone ) got a working Linux-Vserver and one guest. The current issues are I can't get httpd or sshd to start in the guest. This system is being migrated to L-V so has sshd and apache ( two VirtualHosts ) running currently. I have modified sshd_config, httpd.conf, and ssl.c

Re: [Vserver] Networking: inside and out

2006-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Grzegorz Nosek wrote: Open file limits? Missing CAP_NET_BIND or some other capabilities? Maybe a strace will be useful (should show you what is the exact error). Does ip addr show (or ifconfig -a) on the guest show the proper IP address? Possibility on the file limits. I'll research. CAP_N

Re: [Vserver] Errors on stopping vserver

2006-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Fareha Shafique wrote: Hi, When I stop the vserver I get the following: Stopping sshd: [FAILED] Shutting down kernel logger: [FAILED] Shutting down system logger: [ OK ] Starting killall: Stopping sshd:

[Vserver] Hashification process ( not working? )

2006-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Despite following the instructions found at http://linux-vserver.org/alpha+util-vserver for vhashify I am getting error messages. Two vserver guests; test and site; ( with a few different packages and some modified files ) I have: mkdir -p /etc/vservers/.defaults/apps/vunify/hash

Re: [Vserver] Errors on stopping vserver

2006-05-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Fareha Shafique wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Fareha Shafique wrote: Hi, When I stop the vserver I get the following: Stopping sshd: [FAILED] Shutting down kernel logger: [FAILED] Shutting down system logger

Re: [Vserver] Hashification process ( not working? )

2006-05-25 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Despite following the instructions found at As a follow up I think I found the problem. Somehow I ended up with a circular link list. /var/vservers/.hash/.hash => /var/vservers/.hash Anyway it was getting ugly so I decided to remove the two guests and proba

[Vserver] Multiple NICs, multiple networks: Revisited

2006-05-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I have looked at "http://linux-vserver.org/Recipes"; -- "configuring routing for a server with two network interfaces" and it makes sense but since I use sysv ( Redhat/Fedora/CentOS ) systems I'm not sure how to accomplish the same thing. That is at boot or network restart time without user in

Re: [Vserver] Multiple NICs, multiple networks: Revisited

2006-05-31 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I have looked at "http://linux-vserver.org/Recipes"; -- "configuring routing for a server with two network interfaces" and it makes sense but since I use sysv ( Redhat/Fedora/CentOS ) systems I'm not sure how to accomplish the same thing. T

[Vserver] 502 error for http://rpm.hozac.com

2006-06-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm getting a 502 from apache ( The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. ) when I try to access via yum & firefox from my desktop and links from a different network. http://www.hozac.com is fine; other than those of us with barely one language find it challenging.

Re: [Vserver] 502 error for http://rpm.hozac.com

2006-06-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I'm getting a 502 from apache ( The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. ) when I try to access via yum & firefox from my desktop and links from a different network. http://www.hozac.com is fi

[Vserver] FC5 and vyum error message

2006-06-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Is it something I did or does the vyum error message still display for a FC5 install? I thought the 'patched' yum wasn't necessary when using Daniel's kernel and util-vserver rpms. TIA, Rod -- ___ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.or

[Vserver] [Q] vhashify

2006-06-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Has anyone developed some instructions on how to build a reference vserver guest and then clone others guests from it? It's Friday and my brain is filling from all the almost answers I've been finding in the list archives and website. TIA and have a great week-end, Rod -- ___

[Vserver] Friendly user interface to the vserver command(s)

2006-06-14 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I am trying to build a more user-friendly interface to the util-vserver commands. Similar to the linuxconf interface Jacques created for the vserver-utils. There was a semi-thread on this several months ago with a suggestion for using 'make menuconfig' and this would be find but I, personally

Re: [Vserver] Friendly user interface to the vserver command(s)

2006-06-18 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:48:55PM -0400, Patrice Levesque wrote: I am trying to build a more user-friendly interface to the util-vserver commands. Similar to the linuxconf interface Jacques created for the vserver-utils. You may find recent Jacques' tools (they work wi

[Vserver] Cloning/Copying ... again!

2006-06-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm trying to make copies of a Vserver guest. These will all be on the same system. So far I have: Started with a FC5 Linux-Vserver install ( per http://linux-vserver.org/VServer+installation+Fedora+Core+5. ) The system was already running a stock FC5 install with some updates. I followed tha

Re: [Vserver] Cloning/Copying ... again!

2006-06-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Guenther Fuchs wrote: Hi there, (on the jump to a seminar so just one note) on Friday, June 23, 2006 at 5:53:15 PM there was posted: RAA> system-config-date ... Dang! I was wondering where all those buggers came from! We were discussing/cussing that yesterday when I did the guest bui

Re: [Vserver] Cloning/Copying ... again!

2006-06-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 08:53:15AM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I'm trying to make copies of a Vserver guest. These will all be on the same system. So far I have: Started with a FC5 Linux-Vserver install ( per http://linux-vserver.org/VServer+installation+F

[Vserver] You guys rock!

2006-06-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
My special thanks to Guenther, Herbert, and Daniel. Your help is making this much easier than my last several trys. A general thanks to everyone else that have asked the "questions" that have made my research easier. Have a great week-end. Rod -- ___

[Vserver] Linux.com article on Linux-Vserver

2006-06-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Showed up on yesterdays Linux Weekly News listing. Here is the link http://lwn.net/Articles/188832/ but if you don't have a LWN account you might not see the comments. The link to the article is http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/15/1444226 The down side is the articl

Re: [Vserver] Cloning/Copying ... again!

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Marcus Mülbüsch wrote: I'm trying to make copies of a Vserver guest. These will all be on the same system. ... Is this a good route or are there other methods that will be fast/safer/whatever? I was hoping that util-vserver would provide that by now, but as far as I know, it still doesn't

Re: [Vserver] update your account

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
infowolfe wrote: any chance someone can setup some type of spam filtering on this list? It looks to be someone gmail account has been compromised. There is also a freedon2surf.net account being used. Rod -- ___ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.l

[Vserver] Wiki down?

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Is there an issue with "vserver.strahlungsfrei.de". I keep getting timeouts and can't get the wiki to show up. While waiting on this; does anyone have some documentation handy on using vhashify and how it works? I've got my first 5 vserver guests created and want(/need?) to do this as most o

Re: [Vserver] Wiki down?

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Is there an issue with "vserver.strahlungsfrei.de". I keep getting timeouts and can't get the wiki to show up. While waiting on this; does anyone have some documentation handy on using vhashify and how it works? I&#x

Re: [Vserver] Cloning/Copying ... again!

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:37:26PM +0200, Marcus Mülbüsch wrote: I'm trying to make copies of a Vserver guest. These will all be on the same system. ... Is this a good route or are there other methods that will be fast/safer/whatever? I was hoping that util-vserver

Re: [Vserver] [x86] 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5.vs2.0.2.0.rc24.1works fine

2006-06-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Guenther Fuchs wrote: Hi there, 4tr - newest FC5 rpm kernel (Daniels 2.6.17) works fine here: Whew! I just started a yum update at noon then went back to my day job. I would have just trusted Daniel's excellent work and rebooted the system ( remote about 35 miles away ). Now I can _just_

[Vserver] vlogin error

2006-06-27 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
After making several copies/clones of a vserver I am getting the following message when I try to install yum ( for internal pkgmgmt ) using vyum. # vyum demo -- install yum vlogin: execvp(): No such file or directory The guest I'm using to make copies from ( test ) was created using the step

Re: [Vserver] vlogin error

2006-06-27 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: After making several copies/clones of a vserver I am getting the following message when I try to install yum ( for internal pkgmgmt ) using vyum. # vyum demo -- install yum vlogin: execvp(): No such file or directory You should

[Vserver] Stopping a 'noname' guest

2006-07-01 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
While playing about I forgot to stop a vserver before deleting it. Homw I have this 'no-name' guest running and can't remember how to stop it other than rebooting the server ( which has worked on other/old vserver kernels ). It is frustrating. I'm tryigng to create these from a remote locati

Re: [Vserver] Stopping a 'noname' guest

2006-07-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: While playing about I forgot to stop a vserver before deleting it. Homw I have this 'no-name' guest running and can't remember how to stop it other than rebooting the server ( which has worked on other/old vserver kern

[Vserver] /proc/virtnet error

2006-07-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
While doing some clean up I was looking for remnants of a guest. When I ran: # find / -name '*vs666*' I got the following error message right away. WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/virtnet: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Since this directory has the context

[Vserver] vyum verbosity?

2006-07-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Is there a way to turn up the verbosity when using vyum? Looking in /usr/sbin/vyum and /usr/lib/util-vserver/vyum-worker I don't see anything to turn the verbosity level up. Specifically I'll looking for a method keep a ssh connection from timing out when it takes a __looonnng__ time to pull

Re: [Vserver] /proc/virtnet error

2006-07-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: While doing some clean up I was looking for remnants of a guest. When I ran: # find / -name '*vs666*' I got the following error message right away. WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/virtnet: this may be a bu

Re: [Vserver] /proc/virtnet error

2006-07-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: While doing some clean up I was looking for remnants of a guest. When I ran: # find / -name '*vs666*' I got the following error message right away. WARNING:

Re: [Vserver] /proc/virtnet error

2006-07-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: How would I ( can I ) go about correcting this -- besides rebooting the host or using other drastic measures? Well, you'd first have to implement it in the kernel ;) Ok, so for the guy that thinks of 'C' as the thir

Re: [Vserver] Cannot install yum on vserver guest on FC5

2006-07-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Henrik Woffinden wrote: Hello. I'm new to Vserver, and I've gone stuck during install of my first guest. I'm using : - Linux-VServer Test [V0.15] Copyright (C) 2003-2006 H.Poetzl chcontext is working. chbind is working. Linux 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5.vs2.0.2.0.rc24.1smp #1 SMP Sat Jun 24 0

[Vserver] UN - vhashify - ing

2006-07-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Is there a neat trick to un-hashify a guest? Nothing I can find on the site or using google. Well actually I found one of my previous messages asking about this. Not really sure why I'd want to do this but the-powers-that-be might request it. It would probably help me understand better what

Re: [Vserver] One more problem: vserver ethernet alias

2006-07-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Kathy Kost wrote: I posted this before but not sure it actually went to the list, being my first post. I am having troubles with a vserver (named "www") in that when I add a 6th IP alias to it, it will not create the interface when the entire system is rebooted. And until I remove that 6th

Re: [Vserver] UN - vhashify - ing

2006-07-13 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Corey Wright wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:53:51 -0700 "Roderick A. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a neat trick to un-hashify a guest? find / -type f \ | while read FILE; do cp -av ${FILE} ${FILE}.remove-hashification rm ${FILE} mv ${FILE}.remo

Re: [Vserver] Cannot install yum on vserver guest on FC5

2006-07-18 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: A well known irritation. I've been looking/checking to see if this is still true especially with FC5. In the mean time I've hacked the script and given it my own text and taken the 5 second t

Re: [Vserver] vserver-copy failing

2006-07-19 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Henrik Woffinden wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to make vserver-copy work? It looks like it does everything, but the network interface name isn't created. Creating every vserver via build and downloading packages online is not an option since they all need to be 100% identical (obviosly

Re: [Vserver] failed on "vyum gast -- install yum" :-(

2006-07-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
jehan procaccia wrote: I had also change fedora repositories to point to our local mirrors so I wasn't sure which of these 2 actions resolved my problem, now I'am pretty sure that starting the guest was the good one Could you provide the steps/actions you used to point to your local repos

Re: [Vserver] failed on "vyum gast -- install yum" :-(

2006-07-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: jehan procaccia wrote: I had also change fedora repositories to point to our local mirrors so I wasn't sure which of these 2 actions resolved my problem, now I'am pretty sure that starting the guest was the good one

Re: [Vserver] failed on "vyum gast -- install yum" :-(

2006-07-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: jehan procaccia wrote: I had also change fedora repositories to point to our local mirrors so I wasn't sure which of these 2 actions resolved my problem, now

Re: [Vserver] failed on "vyum gast -- install yum" :-(

2006-07-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: jehan procaccia wrote: I had also change fedora repositories to point to our local mirrors so I wasn't

[Vserver] listing of --bind mounts

2006-08-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
It appears I'm clueless on this but I have RFTM or at least the man page for the mount command but still don't see a method. How do I get a listing of all the --bind (from /etc/vservers/$GUEST/fstab ) mounts from the host? All I'm seeing is the regular mounts; partitions, nfs, etc. TIA, Rod

Re: [Vserver] listing of --bind mounts

2006-08-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: It appears I'm clueless on this but I have RFTM or at least the man page for the mount command but still don't see a method. How do I get a listing of all the --bind (from /etc/vservers/$GUEST/fstab ) mounts from the host?

Re: [Vserver] listing of --bind mounts

2006-08-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Stephan Mueller wrote: * Roderick A. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [24.08.2006]: It appears I'm clueless on this but I have RFTM or at least the man page for the mount command but still don't see a method. How do I get a listing of all the --bind (from /etc/vservers/$GUEST/fst

Re: [Vserver] clean-up hash directory

2006-09-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Corey Wright wrote: i was curious if vhashify cleaned up after itself (delete orphaned instances of files in hash directory), and it appears it doesn't. these commands should do the job. well, technically this just lists files with a hardlink count of 1 and prints the total size in bytes of all

Re: [Vserver] clean-up hash directory

2006-09-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
06:46:17 +0200 Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Corey Wright wrote: i was curious if vhashify cleaned up after itself (delete orphaned instances of files in hash directory), and it appears it doesn't. these commands should do th

[Vserver] FC5 Install note.

2006-09-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I don't know if this _particular_ piece of information came through the list so I'll mention it. If you are using Daniel's repository for a system that you built awhile ago you should edit your /etc/yum/repos.d/fedora-updates.repo file and add yum to the exclude line. You don't want Fedora m

Re: [Vserver] FC5 Install note.

2006-09-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Guenther Fuchs wrote: Hi there, on Friday, September 8, 2006 at 8:37:04 PM there was posted: RAA> If you are using Daniel's repository for a system that you built awhile RAA> ago you should edit your /etc/yum/repos.d/fedora-updates.repo file and RAA> add yum t

Re: [Vserver] FC5 Install note.

2006-09-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Guenther Fuchs wrote: Hi there, on Friday, September 8, 2006 at 10:39:01 PM there was posted: RAA> Who did the Fedora Core 5 Install on the wiki? Mmmm - looks like me ;-) RAA> Well someone did add it ( yum ) to the exclude line. Oh yes - also looks like me. Didn't remeber that. Seems I'm get

Re: [Vserver] FC5 Install note.

2006-09-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
John Francis Lee wrote: Yes, it's "just" documentation... but I'd never know about Danlle and Bertl's good coding if I hadn't had your help getting it up and running so easily. Thank you Guenther. Thank you Daniel. Thank you Bertl. Thank you Herbert. Reference my previous post: I forgot to me

Re: [Vserver] having a routing problem from guests

2006-09-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Taking this a step further I'm trying to do something similar and getting _strange_ results. Using totally fake IPs here is what I'm trying to set up. ( As typing this I see Chuck just posted to the thread with similar information. ) Host system with three NICs: eth0, eth1, eth2. Fedora Cor

Re: [Vserver] having a routing problem from guests

2006-09-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Chuck wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 11:53, Chuck wrote: [snip] Lastly iptables is pretty open. The problem is that though I can ping from a different network to both of the host's to IPs and I can ping out from the three guests that use eth0 and I can ping the eth1 guest from a eth0 gue

Re: [Vserver] vserver + squid + squidguard

2006-10-27 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Alejandro Cabrera Obed wrote: Hi people, sorry to bother you but I have an squidguard error I don't know, possible vserver configurationn ??? I tell you what I have: * vserver with localhost mapping to a non-routable IP * Squid + Squidguard * In squid.conf: I replaced all the 127.0.0.1 and 127.0

Re: [Vserver] Set default gateway for a guest

2006-11-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Attila - Van der Velde Media wrote: Tnx. It is solved. The problem was conflicting IP's wich i got from my provider. Glad you found a solution. Could you share your settings? I am trying on-and-off to set up a three NIC system and have had poor luck doing it. I want to try again this even

[Vserver] Network local to vserver host and guests?

2006-11-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I started researching how to do this or if it is even possible but want to make sure I'm not using the wrong terms in my searches. I build and use vservers where the guests need to cooperate with each other. That is, a system with with guests running Postfix, PostgreSQL, or Apache ( multiple

Re: [Vserver] Network local to vserver host and guests?

2006-11-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Christian Affolter wrote: Hi! I build and use vservers where the guests need to cooperate with each other. That is, a system with with guests running Postfix, PostgreSQL, or Apache ( multiple guests as they are mod_perl driven ) and they all need to communicate with each other. So I want

Re: [Vserver] Network local to vserver host and guests?

2006-11-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Christian Affolter wrote: Hi! So I want to build a Virtual LAN ( different from my take on a VLAN ) with virtual NICs. Basically the traffic never hits the physical LAN/WAN. That make sense? yes, and it is a typical Linux-VServer case IS it possible? yes, of course, you do not even

[Vserver] Vserver host and CORAID

2006-12-01 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I can't talk the sysadmin into letting me take one of our CORAID boxes home for testing :-) so I'll ask here. Anyone using a CORAID (http://www.coraid.com) device with Linux-Vservers? Rod -- ___ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org htt

[Vserver] Socket Access ... I think

2006-12-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm trying to install and use, in a vserver guest, a perl module ( IO::All ) and it keeps failing a test and when I skip the tests and just do an install it still doesn't work. Looking at the tests I see lots of socket stuff. Short ( easy ) question is has anyone installed IO::All in a Vserver

Re: [Vserver] Socket Access ... I think

2006-12-15 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:00:15PM -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I'm trying to install and use, in a vserver guest, a perl module (IO::All ) and it keeps failing a test and when I skip the tests and just do an install it still doesn't work. Looking at the t

Re: [Vserver] setting time out on vserver stop

2007-01-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: jean-marc pouchoulon wrote: The instructions from FC5 should basically apply, but I suppose migrating the howto to the new wiki and updating it to cover FC6 would be a good idea. I'm migrating a FC5 system to a Linux-Vserver and found while following the d

Re: [Vserver] setting time out on vserver stop

2007-01-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I'm migrating a FC5 system to a Linux-Vserver and found while following the directions that the latest non-vserver kernel is newer than one in your repository. Yeah. I was hoping FC5 would get a 2.6.19 kernel based RSN, but it

Re: [Vserver] setting time out on vserver stop

2007-01-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Guenther Fuchs wrote: Hi there, on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 1:03:25 PM there was posted: jmp> NB: jmp> Did you plan to make "a quickstart for vserver fedora core 6 " in jmp> the near future ? jmp> The formers were great and usefull ... as "the formers" where written by me I take this as m

Re: [Vserver] setting time out on vserver stop

2007-01-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I keep loosing track of who does/has done what. Another point to to clarify is if there is still the issue with the pam modules. Section 5, third bullet. On FC6? I haven't verified it there, but (on FC5) the module will l

[Vserver] FC5 Linux-Vserver ( gotcha ).

2007-01-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I found another slight gotcha in the install process. I think the following is the fix. After: A. Installing the vserver utilities system from rpm Need to run the command: service vprocunhide start Rod -- ___ Vserver mailing list

Re: [Vserver] FC5 Linux-Vserver ( gotcha ).

2007-01-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I found another slight gotcha in the install process. I think the following is the fix. After: A. Installing the vserver utilities system from rpm Need to run the command: service vprocunhide start And in the future (util

[Vserver] OSCON 2007?

2007-01-08 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Anyone planning on attending OSCON in 2007? Anyone planning a presentation on Linux-Vserver? Where do we go and who do we talk to about this? My assumption is it would cost too much for an individual or their company to pay on their own for most of the active developers. Rod -- ___

Re: [Vserver] CIFS-mounts in vserver guests: solved

2007-04-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Wilhelm Meier wrote: Am Montag, 2. April 2007 schrieb Wilhelm Meier: after our conversion I got the quick cifs hack running (using a special CLONE-flag for the cifs-thread). The I got this patch, which changes the api to kthread_run. But, the problem remains. I still got this error in dmesg:

[Vserver] FC5 End of Life and Linux-Vserver

2007-05-17 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
With the announcement of the EOL for Fedora Core 5 I'm wondering where I should go next or if I should go ... next? So actually this is more a question for Daniel Zakrisson since he provides the FC5 vserver kernel and vserver-utils RPMs and the repository. How long do you think you'll keep

Re: [Vserver] FC5 End of Life and Linux-Vserver

2007-05-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: With the announcement of the EOL for Fedora Core 5 I'm wondering where I should go next or if I should go ... next? So actually this is more a question for Daniel Zakrisson since he provides the FC5 vserver kernel and vserver-

[Vserver] Catalyst Framworks (perl not CISCO) and Vserver

2007-05-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
This is going to be very vague but please bear with me. We just rebooted into a new kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5.vs2.2.0.1smp and now the Catalyst test servers (http) will not automagically restart correctly when they detects changes in the .pm files. I see the message it has noticed the changed

[Vserver] fuse ( sshfs ) in guests

2007-05-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Before I start messing around with systems is anyone running fuse-sshfs from inside a guest? I see the fuse module, so I assume :-), all I need to do is get it loaded then install fuse-sshfs, fuse, fuse-libs into a guest. I am a little concerned that fuse and fuse-libs might clash with the vs

[Vserver] Hosts and Guests and NTP; oh my.

2007-07-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I need to provide time services for the local network (less than 50 servers, workstations and Windows boxes) and since that is pretty lite weight I'm thinking of putting it into the guest that will be handling DNS queries. But ... I'm pretty sure a guest normally can't change the system clock

Re: [Vserver] Hosts and Guests and NTP; oh my.

2007-07-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Chuck wrote: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:07, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I need to provide time services for the local network (less than 50 servers, workstations and Windows boxes) and since that is pretty lite weight I'm thinking of putting it into the guest that will be handling DNS qu

Re: [Vserver] Error while executing the vserver startup sequence

2007-07-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Jake Solid wrote: I'm getting the following error when trying to create a gust on my CentOS 5 x86_64. I was able to find all files listed below and dont no for sure where is the problem. I'm using util-vserver-0.30.213-0.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# vserver myguest buil

[Vserver] One More Time - copy a Guest from system to system

2007-07-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've been all through the Wiki and old docs, searched using Google, looked through my _OLD_ messages (back to 2003) and still can't come up with a well defined method to copy a (running if possible) vserver guest from one system to another. From my reading I think I need to build the _new_ gue

Re: [Vserver] One More Time - copy a Guest from system to system

2007-07-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
but this will be better. Again thanks, Rod -- Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I've been all through the Wiki and old docs, searched using Google, looked through my _OLD_ messages (back to 2003) and still can't come up with a well defined method to copy a (

Re: [Vserver] One More Time - copy a Guest from system to system

2007-07-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I've been all through the Wiki and old docs, searched using Google, looked through my _OLD_ messages (back to 2003) and still can't come up with a well defined method to copy a (running if possible) vserver guest from one

Re: [Vserver] One More Time - copy a Guest from system to system

2007-07-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Chuck wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2007 14:01, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I've been all through the Wiki and old docs, searched using Google, looked through my _OLD_ messages (back to 2003) and still can't come up with a well defined method to copy a (running if possible) vserver guest

[Vserver] The $64,000 dollar question

2007-07-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Thanks to all for your help and suggestions on copying Vserver guests. So far it has worked quite well. I'm now on to newer things which brings me to the "question." What distribution should I use for the Host? With Daniel's excellent repository(s) I have been using Fedora Core 5. I has be

Re: [Vserver] The $64,000 dollar question

2007-07-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Thanks to all for your help and suggestions on copying Vserver guests. So far it has worked quite well. I'm now on to newer things which brings me to the "question." What distribution should I use for the Host?

[Vserver] Vserver copy. The saga continues!

2007-07-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
The builds using rsync are going well but this has created a bit of a problem. Typically I build using yum as the method. This creates all the necessary files in /etc/vservers//apps. Using rsync doesn't. Is there a command/incantation to convert a vserver guest to another package-management

Re: [Vserver] Vserver copy. The saga continues!

2007-07-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Chuck wrote: On Thursday 12 July 2007 13:55, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: if i use vserver build with its rsync options it makes the /etc/vserver/guest directory for me just like any other build using vserver. are you using rsync by itself? maybe thats why. the vserver application

Re: [Vserver] The $64,000 dollar question

2007-08-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: So the big question is which (preferably YUM-able) distribution should I use for the host? I'm currently thinking CentOS 5 as it has an end-of-life in about 5 years. I hope to be retired by then. :-) Plus I believe I read th

[Vserver] SAMBA (smb client) in a veserver (again!)

2004-03-01 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I've run into the same problem that I have mentioned before with smb mounts causing the system to lock up. I can't prove this yet but it is the only commonality between the different systems having problems. It is an old vserver kernel (2.4.20-ctx17) but attempts to upgrade to a newer kernel

Re: [Vserver] Lean, mean, vserver machine (ah... kernel)

2004-03-01 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Sam Vilain wrote: > Turning off the modules you don't use is a minefield, there is no > simple answer. A good rule of thumb is to use `lspci' and `lsmod' and > make sure that for each piece of hardware that identified that you > care about, you have a driver compiled. Thanks

Re: [Vserver] SSH login inside vserver not working

2004-03-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Cedric Veilleux wrote: > Thanks for the hint, but unfortunately, even after restarting sshd, I > still have the same problem. I just upgrade from 2.4.19ctx-13 to the current from Jacques. I had already deleted all the old vservers so built a new one and after changing the Li

[Vserver] iptables POM extras repository

2004-03-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Has anyone applied the IPTables POM patches from the extras repository at netfilter.org? I just started looking into it and like a couple of the modules. Not sure if they will work/function/work-with(in) a vserver especially TARPIT and those that could be used for honey-potting. Thoughts? TIA

Re: [Vserver] Lean, mean, vserver machine (ah... kernel)

2004-03-29 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Sam Vilain wrote: > Turning off the modules you don't use is a minefield, there is no > simple answer. Boy did I discover that. Build a new kernel last Friday, cut way back module/driver-wise booted it and got no errors and all the vservers were running or at least appeared

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