>> And now come all the obvious questions... :D > >>>> I'm kind of last at the moment. I've upgraded my Slackware 12.0 >>>> installation to 12.2 and upgraded the kernel to >>>> 2.6.32.11-grsec2.1.14-vs2.3.0.36.29.4-smp. > >>>> My util-vserver is 0.30.215. > >>> which is too old for a recent kernel (it is more than two >>> years since it was released, and back then, nobody knew >>> that the mainline kernel would change :) > >> Where can I download a newer version of util-vserver? :) > > http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org > -> Downloads > -> util-vserver pre-releases > > which points to: > http://people.linux-vserver.org/~dhozac/t/uv-testing/ > >>>> My vserver guests (still running 12.0) seem to work. >>> >>> they seem to, but as a matter of fact, the isolation is >>> gone and the namespaces are partially non-functional > >> Is this 'fixable' by using a newer util-vserver? > > yep, recent 0.30.216-pre28xx will fix this after > a guest restart ... > >>>> However, when I log in to this machine, the hostname in my prompt is >>>> 'zaphod'. When I start screen and create a new terminal, my hostname >>>> (in my prompt) changes to the name of the lastly started vserver... > >>>> Has anyone seen this behavior? If so, what's happening here? > >>> yep, many debian users have, some gentoo folks too :) >>> what happens is that cloning the namespaces fails because >>> mainline changed the way it needs to be done and the >>> tools are too old to know ... > >> See questions above... > > see answers above... Thank You! (I didn't even see that util-vserver pre-releases link :() -Laurens