On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Corey Wright <undefined@pobox.com> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:39:26 +0800 > "Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <jfs.world@gmail.com> wrote: > >> (pasted from another thread about the "one-liner >> /etc/apt/sources.list" - but I figure this one deserves another thread >> of its own...) I'm getting problems like the following when doing an >> 'apt-get upgrade' in a guest: > > i intended to reply earlier to this email in the other thread, but didn't > have the time until now. > sure, no problem. > > this is because /etc/init.d/procps.sh executes "sysctl -p" which tries to > write values from /etc/sysctl.conf to /proc/sys, but those /proc entries > are read-only within a guest. this is because of linux-vserver and > harmless, but admittedly noisy. > yeah, I figured. > unless there's a "/etc/vservers/.distributions/hardy/initpost" or > "/usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/hardy/initpost" (or whatever the > equivalent paths are for your source install) that removes unneeded > initscripts (like /usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/debian/initpost, > lines 125-139), then you'll have similar noise on guest startup or > shutdown. and even then after some packages upgrade you have to manually > clean up their reenabling of the init scripts (or extract what the inipost > script does into a separate script). > >> While I reckon that these aren't critical errors, is there some sort >> of "recommended way" for upgrading the files in a guest? > > either "vapt-get <vservers> -- (update|upgrade|dist-upgrade)" or "vserver > <vserver> exec apt-get (update|upgrade|dist-upgrade)". > is there any real difference (save for being able to do it for multiple vservers) between 'vapt-get' and 'apt-get' in the guest? (I guessing that initpost is probably one of the reasons) In which case, is there any doc that talks more about vapt-get? man and 'vapt-get --help' doesnt offer much in the way of help. Neither does the great flower page. thanks, -jf