On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 07:58:29PM +0200, Laurens Vets wrote: > Evening Sirs, > And now come all the obvious questions... :D > >>I'm kind of last at the moment. I've upgraded my Slackware 12.0 > >>installation to 12.2 and upgraded the kernel to > >>2.6.32.11-grsec2.1.14-vs2.3.0.36.29.4-smp. > >>My util-vserver is 0.30.215. > >which is too old for a recent kernel (it is more than two > >years since it was released, and back then, nobody knew > >that the mainline kernel would change :) > Where can I download a newer version of util-vserver? :) http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org -> Downloads -> util-vserver pre-releases which points to: http://people.linux-vserver.org/~dhozac/t/uv-testing/ > >>My vserver guests (still running 12.0) seem to work. > > > >they seem to, but as a matter of fact, the isolation is > >gone and the namespaces are partially non-functional > Is this 'fixable' by using a newer util-vserver? yep, recent 0.30.216-pre28xx will fix this after a guest restart ... > >>However, when I log in to this machine, the hostname in my prompt is > >>'zaphod'. When I start screen and create a new terminal, my hostname > >>(in my prompt) changes to the name of the lastly started vserver... > >>Has anyone seen this behavior? If so, what's happening here? > >yep, many debian users have, some gentoo folks too :) > >what happens is that cloning the namespaces fails because > >mainline changed the way it needs to be done and the > >tools are too old to know ... > See questions above... see answers above... best, Herbert > Thanks! :)