Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:53:54 +0200 On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:16:33PM +0200, Raphael Bauduin wrote: >> Hi, > >> To backup my vservers, I run a script from cron, and this >> script stop, backups up and starts each vserver. >> The vserver command however outputs this error: > >> stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > please show us the script and the crontab invocation Here's the script #!/bin/bash . ./backup vars.sh for d in /var/lib/vservers/* ; do vserver=$(basename $d) vserver --silent $vserver stop ./vs time machine.sh $d vserver --silent $vserver start done And cron invocation: 00 04 * * * root cd /usr/local/shbackup/ && ./sync vservers.sh >/dev/null > >> Any idea how I can avoir this error message? > >> I'm running on debian: >> ii util-vserver 0.30.216~r2772-6 >> user-space tools for Linux-VServer virtual private servers > > better update to a more recent version > >> ii vserver-debiantools 0.6.3 >> Tools to manage debian virtual servers > > better get rid of that completely before it does > some real damage (but maybe it already did) I wans't aware of that. Can you point me to some docs about it (a quick google and search on the website didn't return info about the dangers) Thanks Raph > > best, > Herbert > >> Thx >> Raph > -- Web database: http://www.myowndb.com Free Software Developers Meeting: http://www.fosdem.org