Yes you can leave it without, but in this case if you defined it in the "old" vserver you would have to change it in the "new" vserver.
Also, I do not know if this is really the case, but I felt that having fixed context IDs is much more stable than having dynamic ones. ----- Original Message ----- From: Youri LACAN-BARTLEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:15:43 AM GMT+0100 Subject: Re: [Vserver] Cloning a vserver IIRC, there is no need to manually specify the context ID ... Christian Knauber wrote: > Did you change the context id of the new vserver ? > It is defined in the file /etc/vservers/new/context. > > Have a nice day, > > Christian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Odile Bénassy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 9:18:27 AM GMT+0100 > Subject: [Vserver] Cloning a vserver > > Hello, > > I hope not to disturb with a low-level question, I still hope will be > useful to others. > > I'm very happy with my vservers in general, I must say, and the users > too, of course. > > I want to copy a vserver into a second one, because the second one will > run the same software. > > So I had an IP .xxx and a name "old" > > And I want a new IP .yyy and a new name "new" > > 1) I copied all the /vservers/old to /vservers/new > > 2) I copied all the /etc/vservers/old to /etc/vservers/new and also > /etc/vservers/old.conf to /etc/vservers/new.conf > > 3) I went into /etc/vservers/new.conf, into /etc/vservers/new, into > /vservers/new/etc and change there every string .xxx into .yyy, and > "old" into "new" > > 4) I fixed the /etc/vservers/new symlink > > Now both vservers can start and stop. I can ping both IPs. > > But if I enter "new" I am in "old". > > What do I have left behind? > > _______________________________________________ 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