On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:55:55PM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > And deleting vservers. > > Just because my last two posts caused so much 'interest' I'll get another > going. :-) > > In another fix of insanity I created a new vserver by cloning a _running_ > vserver and unifying disk space. Big mistake it appears. Now I can't > remove the whole vserver directory because the /dev/pts directory contains > two files I can't rm (and I didn't even go to the other directory - I > think it's /proc to see what the problem was there.) > Since I've made similar mistakes in the past I found I could go from > the ctx kernel to the 'other' kernel and then remove those directories. > Question 1 is - is there a way to remove those 'sticky' files while the > ctx kernel is running?
hmm, sounds interesting, could you probably give some more info on those 'sticky' files of yours ... /usr/lib/vserver/showattr and lsattr would be nice ... > Question 2 is - is there another method to copy a vserver besides using > the normal vserver utilities? I saw a few posts on doing this when moving > to another system using rsync and a method using tar. Was there a > consensus on how to do this. I usually do it with dump/restore ... # cd /vservers # mkdir XXX # cd XXX # dump 0f - /vservers/<name> | restore rf - # mv <name> ../<new-name> > On another note, one of the threads I _started_ transformed to one on a > vserver book/how-to. I'm going to start collecting tricks and information > and after cleaning up their layout resubmit them to the list for review. > Then I'll move them to a site (mine or someone else's.) These can become > the basis for 'the book'. good idea, I'm willing to proofread ... > I'd like to start this process, based on the other threads, by asking > what people are doing with vservers and what hardware they are running > them on. > Are you running productions systems - specialized or general, testing > software, or experimenting? CPU, main board (consumer/server grade), RAM, > drive interface (SCSI, IDE, iSCSI, etc.), case/cabinet, location (co-lo, > desk-side, basement :-) and anything else you find interesting and/or > unique about your system(s). Oh yeah, which distribution(s) are you using > for your main server and vservers? best, Herbert > Rod > -- > "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..."
