On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:13:25 +0800 "Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <jfs.world@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Corey Wright <undefined@pobox.com> wrote: > > now maybe if you are installing multiple similar guests, then it would > > be beneficial to configure a reasonable set of defaults in a > > configuration file. for debian guests using the debian util-vserver > > package, that should be > > in /usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/debian/initpost (and, yeah, > > that's definitely not a configuration file). > > is there some doc somewhere that gives more info about this? i've been > mainly relying on man (not much for some of the tools!) and the wiki. > Havent come across this piece of info before. the only docs i use are (in order of frequency): my personal wiki, google, the linux-vserver wiki, "vserver <whatever> <command> --help" and "the great flower page". > Now for another question (now that I've discovered this): > what's the difference in purpose between these 2 locations - > /usr/local/lib/util-vserver/distributions, and > /usr/local/etc/vserver/.distributions ? for this, it appears the great flower page (literally, google "the great flower page" and it should be the first hit) has what you want (ie "/etc/vservers/.distributions/<dist>/apt"). i learn something every day. let me know if it works for you. > > but editing > > sources.list hasn't wasted enough of my time for me to research setting > > saner defaults. > > > > and i don't use vserver-debiantools, but maybe it does a better job > > creating debian/ubuntu guests. > > > > any reason why not? What do you use/do instead? when i first started using linux-vserver 3 years ago, rumor was vserver-debiantools was buggy, so i learned to use util-vserver directly instead. util-vserver has always worked efficiently enough that i've never felt the need to use the vserver-debiantools. and instead of vserver-debiantools i use util-vserver and nano. corey -- undefined@pobox.com