On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 03:27:42AM +0200, Andreas John wrote: > Hello! > > >/dev/initctl is a pipe created by init, so if you > >start an actual init inside your guest, it will create > >that pipe, then listen to it and once the reboot (or > >shutdown) calls through the pipe, issue the reboot to > >the kernel ... > > > >which kind of setup you use is your choice ... > > Hmmm .... so how do I supress VServers "fakeinit" and start a "real" one?
you change the init style from 'sysv' to 'plain' or 'minit' depending on your init ... see the Flower Page for details ... > The one that is running does not create the pipe: it does, but that one is on the host, and you do not want to send reboot requests there, I guess ... > foo:/# ps faxu > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 15173 7.0 0.5 4872 1636 pts/0 S 03:13 0:00 > /bin/bash -login > root 15187 0.0 0.2 4612 872 pts/0 R+ 03:13 0:00 \_ ps faxu > root 1 0.0 0.1 1588 516 ? S Aug05 0:01 init [2] > [...] > > foo:/# reboot > shutdown: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory > init: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory your 'reboot' is the same binary as your 'init' and depending on the options and pid, it acts as init, does a reboot (-f option) or just tries to contact the process with pid=1 to do that on behlaf ... > It's not really that important, but staying als close to a real server > as possible in the default setup would be a good choice. depends on the purpose, if you do not like the ovehead introduced by a running init (inside the guest) you are better off by not running it (i.e. using sysv init) HTH, Herbert > n8, > Andreas > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
