Thanks. Very helpful as always - John On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 00:15 +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 02:57:26PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Hello, all. We are trying to run zimbra in a vserver. We have almost > > everything working but there are a few nasty problems remaining. > > One of them is the statistics collector which wants to run vmstat. > > which doesn't really make sense inside a guest, as the > vmstat would show the host wide information > > > This fills the error logs with messages about needing to mount /proc; > > I assume this is because /proc/vmstat is not exposed to the vserver. > > well, it is because a program (probably vmstat) implements > a broken heuristic to determine whether proc is mounted > or not ... > > > I would imagine the solution is to add /proc/vmstat to vprocunhide. > > Are there any caveats to doing that? > > not from the system PoV, but it shows host information > on a guest, which is usually not what you want > > > I was hoping to do this just for the one vserver but it looks like > > it's an all or nothing approach. > > yep, patches are welcome :) > > but you could work around that by using --bind mounts to > replace the unwanted entry in other guests ... > > > What is the difference between making the entry in > > /etc/vservers/.defaults/apps/vprocunhide and > > /usr/lib64/util-vserver/defaults/vprocunhide-files? > > the former will be kept over updates, where the latter > will be replaced by a new util-vserver version > > btw, IMHO the best solution to this 'problem' would be to > make this thing configureable in zimbra, the second best to > write a dummy vmstat script/binary to avoid the vmstat > > best, > Herbert > > > Thanks - John > > -- > > John A. Sullivan III > > Open Source Development Corporation > > +1 207-985-7880 > > jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com > > > > http://www.spiritualoutreach.com > > Making Christianity intelligible to secular society -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com http://www.spiritualoutreach.com Making Christianity intelligible to secular society