Thanks to the both of you Daniel and Herbert. Not specifying -d debian makes sense. Herbert: There is actually no debian directory in /etc/vservers/.distributions/ and .common has no scripts. Do you mean to override the default post-install scripts by simply setting up a debian directory? Best regards, Lars On 18.09.2013 20:44, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: > Hi, > > Lars Bräuer wrote: >> Hello, >> >> we roll out some vServers with the vserver build template function: >> >> vserver <name> build --context <num> --hostname <name> --interface <ip> \ -m template -- -t >> <tarball> -d debian > > If you have a tarball that is configured the way you like it, you shouldn't specify a > distribution. That way, no post install script will be run, and you are responsible for running > it before. > > Best regards, Daniel > >> The tarball contains an /etc/rc2.d directory with a few services preinstalled. >> >> vserver build uses the tarball leaving nothing but these two files in /etc/rc2.d: >> >> S01rsyslog -> ../init.d/rsyslog S03rc.local -> ../init.d/rc.local >> >> Why would vserver build clean up the runlevel and delete all other links? While all the >> preinstalled scripts have runlevel 2 set as "Default start" in the LSB header. >> >> I couldn't find an option to change this and I also didn't find something searching through >> /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build* >> >> Any hints? >> >> Best regards >> >> Lars >> >