Re: [Vserver] Missing Gentoo init script?

From: Benedikt Boehm <hollow_at_gentoo.org>
Date: Sun 09 Oct 2005 - 12:13:13 BST
Message-Id: <200510091313.13959.hollow@gentoo.org>

On Sunday 09 October 2005 12:07, Chuck wrote:
> On Sunday 09 October 2005 03:11 am, Benedikt Boehm wrote:
>
> its just me being lazy not wanting to change the default name to rabbits or
> something in the conf.d config file:)

well, if you have default marks in your config, you probably want them to
start at boot anyway, else you remove the mark...

if you don't have any marks configured, the default mark will not start
anything...

>
> it makes perfect sense to put it where it is... the only thing i ask is
> that you change the message after to indicate there are changes and that
> they should remove the vprocunhide from default if it is an upgrade.
>
> possibly one of those beeping timed yellow msgs. :).
>
> i have suggested this several times in bugzilla that they change the way
> portage operates to make it output all info msgs from every pkg emerged to
> a text file with a single msg at the end to check xxx.txt for changes. that
> way people like me who may emerge 10 things and go to bed or out on site
> won't miss anything important. however no one has acted on this in more
> than a year.

probably you should take a look at PORT_LOGDIR (see make.conf(5))

>
> > On Sunday 09 October 2005 02:55, Chuck wrote:
> > > On Saturday 08 October 2005 08:01 pm, Benedikt Boehm wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > its a good place to put it when you use the vservers init script to
> > > auto start. but when you dont there is no option to call vservers
> > > unhide or some such to just run vprocunhide... i know i can set all
> > > the guests to some mark other than default or change the default to
> > > some other name, but when working on the systems its a pain to keep
> > > editing back and forth so vservers doesnt find anything to start..
> > >
> > > please realize this is my own uneducated opinion, but i still vote for
> > > a separatre script. for me the way i work and use them its far more
> > > convenient.
> >
> > the vservers init script does only start those guests you tell it to, if
> > you don't specify any guest it will just make proc entries visible..
> >
> > additionally the vservers init script ensures that on stop/reboot _all_
>
> guests
>
> > are shut down probperly
> >
> > so there is definitely no need to put one command (vprocunhide) in an
> > extra ini script.
> >
> > > i just re-emerged util-vserver-0.30.208-r3 to see the msg that i
>
> missed...
>
> > > it doesnt tell me that vprocunhide is no longer a separate script. it
>
> tells
>
> > > me to run vprocunhide then goes on to tell me an init script was
> > > installed and how to add it with no reference that vprocunhide was
> > > added into it.. there is nothing about changes.. sorry:)
> > >
> > > * You have to run the vprocunhide command after every reboot
> > > * in order to setup /proc permissions correctly for vserver
> > > * use. An init script has been installed by this package.
> > > * To use it you should add it to a runlevel:
> > > *
> > > * rc-update add vserver default
> > > *
> > > * This init script will also help you to start/stop your vservers
> > > * on reboot. See /etc/conf.d/vserver for details
> >
> > what nice message! it told you everything i told you :)
> >
> > > > On Saturday 08 October 2005 22:19, Chuck wrote:
> > > > > It appears that the ebuild for util-vserver-0.30.208-r3 is missing
> > > > > the vprocunhide init script. On a clean system it did not install
> > > > > one and
>
> I
>
> > > > > could not find one. I copied one from another host.
> > > >
> > > > you should read the messages popping up after the build of
> > > > util-vserver
> > > >
> > > > the two init scripts (vprocunhide and vservers) have been merged into
>
> one
>
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