Re: [Vserver] vlogin error

Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>
>> After making several copies/clones of a vserver I am getting the
>> following message when I try to install yum ( for internal pkgmgmt )
>> using vyum.
>>
>> # vyum demo -- install yum
>> vlogin: execvp(): No such file or directory
>
>
> You should probably internalize package management prior to cloning the
> guest.

Once again thanks Daniel.

Further fiddling makes me think for our purposes that internalizing
package management isn't a good idea at this time.

>
>> The guest I'm using to make copies from ( test ) was created using
>> the steps described in my previous messages.
>>
>> The copy was created by:
>>
>> 1. vserver demo build -m skeleton -context 666
>> --hostname=yadayada.example.com --interface demo=eth0:192.168.13.13/24
>>
>> 2. cp -a /vservers/test/* /vservers/demo
>>
>> There were several entrys in the /dev directory that I left alone
>> during the copy.
>>
>> I'm thinking there is something missing in the second step above.
>> Pointers/suggestions?
>
>
> If you want to use external package management, even if it's just to
> internalize it, you'll have to copy /vservers/.pkg/test to
> /vservers/.pkg/demo, and quite possibly create a symlink
> (/etc/vservers/<name>/apps/pkgmgmt/base, according to my cursory
> investigation).

I'll look at this. I was thinking I was missing somethink like this. I
just couldn't track it down.

>

Rod

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