On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 10:40:25AM -0500, David Bandel wrote: > Folks, > > I've run vservers before and have decided I need to go back to them to > better manage some things. However, I seem to be running into a small > snag. > > Before, I had several guests running on one host, but now it appears > I'm having a clash. What I need to do (and I'm sure I had this > previously): > > vservers: > mail.abc.com > mail.xyz.com > > When I create the first guest, all is well. I then move mail to abc > changing mail in /var/lib/vservers (mv'ing the directory name), and > changing /etc/vservers/mail to /etc/vservers/abc, and also changing > the appropriate links int /etc/vservers/.defaults, and the entries in > /etc/vservers/abc/uts/nodename and /etc/vservers/abc/hostname. you probably should avoid that, so much can go wrong here, so I'd advise to use vserver <name> clone or similar to do that > Creating the second guest works, but entering the first guest now > shows me the name is abc.abc.com. If I don't change the nodename, I > get the error mail is running. the name can be either specified in the utsname config for that guest, or, depending on the flags, from inside the guest (which might be the case here) > Is there any solution to this dilemna that will allow me to run > various "mail" servers under different domain names? > > The FAQ, docs, and tutorials all seem to assume you'll only run > systems with different hostnames under one domain. I need about 6 > "mail" servers that are mail.domain.com as different domain names. I > need this so the servers reply as mail.abc|xyz.com > > Can this be done? If so, how? yes, definitely, the host and domain names are completely isolated and virtualized now, so you can get whatever combination you want ... best, Herbert > TIA, > > David A. Bandel > -- > Focus on the dream, not the competition. > - Nemesis Air Racing Team motto