On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:40:29AM +0930, Darryl Ross wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Resending as I used the wrong source address. > > Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:04:49AM +0930, Mike O'Connor wrote:\ > >>The reason why I need to have a woody version of the tools is that is > >>just to hard to upgrade all the systems I have out there, particularly > >>as they a mostly in data center in places a long way a way. > > > > hmm, and I always thought that gentoo uses source only > > packages not debian :) > > The problem we are having is that we have a large number of Debian Woody > machines deployed which are are not able to easily upgrade to Sarge. > > Smiley aside, the errors Mike posted were from attempting to backport > the version of the tools in Sarge to Woody. We'd love to try "a recent > compiler" if you can let us know where one is for Woody!
http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html > >>The other option would be if someone could tell me how I could hide the > >>ip addresses of other client OS's using the old tools, this would delay > >>my requirments to upgrades. > > > > it requires a newer kernel not newer tools ... > > As far as I can work out it requires both. http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Experimental/TOOLS/ > vserver2:/etc/vservers# uname -r > 2.6.11.6-smp-vs.1.9.5 > > I believe the behavior changed at 1.9.5 for how the interfaces are > configured and hidden. We can't specify the flag required to hide the > addresses using version 0.30-6 of the tools and we can't build the new > tools on Woody. nonsense ... > When we enter the vservers on any of the machines we've done a kernel > upgrade on and do an ifconfig, we can see all of the IP addresses that > are assigned to the machine. This means that sendmail cannot send mail > between different vservers on the same host because it thinks it's > sending to itself. ('Oh, that resolves to my IP address, must be talking > to myself. Don't want to do that!') > > Downgrading the kernel is not an option for both security and other > required features. > > Is there some way we can build the 0.30.204 util-vserver tools on Woody > (or has someone already done it?) get a gcc/binutils, build them yourself, build a recent dietlibc, build the tools, make your binary package install it on your woody system ... HTH, Herbert > Regards > Darryl > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFC0yaV/XQ6DbmPjokRAm4PAJ4kxWfMxtEJFvg2zrAhl0IoNP0vjACcDf34 > UbMY/LoOxXBzAG/fgCeh/3g= > =eUsJ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
