You're scaring the crap out of me! Is this specific to a particular os? I'm using vserver on RHEL and Gentoo, and I don't see this on any of my systems. John On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote: > > Folks! > This is a really serious issue! > > recent changes to various (sysv)init scripts might > wipe out your guests and their config on every > system reboot! > > here are the details: > > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (path might be different) > contain a line similar to this one: > > find -L /var/lock /var/run ! -type d -exec rm -f {} \; > > with the purpose to remove old files from > /var/lock and /var/run (which sounds like a good > idea, but the devil is in the detail) > > now util-vserver uses /var/run/vservers.rev to > store links to the configured/active guests like > this: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 19 2008-08-07 14:23 42001 -> /etc/vservers/test1/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 19 2008-08-07 16:19 42002 -> /etc/vservers/test2/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 19 2008-08-06 11:50 42003 -> /etc/vservers/test3/ > > and each guest config, contains a link to the > actual guest data, like this: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 21 2008-08-07 16:02 vdir -> /vservers/test1 > > the problem is in the -L, which means that find > will not only remove all files in /var/run, but > also follow all symbolic links and remove all files > there, which will include the guest config and > more important the actual guest data/files > > as Daniel Hokka Zakrisson did put it (quite nicely > IMHO) on the IRC channel: > > "I don't know what kind of crack-rock whoever wrote > that smoked, but that's the problem." > > HTH, > Herbert > > -- John Alberts