On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:05:27 -0500 "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org> wrote: > Just built a Ubuntu-Jaunty guest with the debootstrap method - - ... > Does the "vserver - build ..." command refer to a list of "allowed" > runtime init (/etc/rc3.d) script links and scrub whatever else > it finds? i can't speak to ubuntu, but for debian guests the script /usr/lib/util-vserver/distributions/debian/initpost contains: <quote> pushd etc/init.d &>/dev/null for i in *; do case "$i" in (sysklogd|syslog-ng|rsyslog|dsyslog) ;; (README|skeleton|sendsigs|single|rc|rc.local|rcS) ;; ($have_halt) ;; (*) $_VSERVER "$NAME" exec update-rc.d -f "$i" remove ;; esac done popd &>/dev/null </quote> which removes all init scripts within /etc/init.d (and their corresponding runlevel symlinks) from a base install except for the syslog daemon and a few specific others. /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build.debootstrap calls $BUILD_INITPOST and that is set to the distribution-specific initpost by /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build.functions (or so it appears from my quick perusal of the code). there doesn't appear to be an initpost script specific to any of the ubuntu releases in my util-vserver package from lenny, but this might be different for the ubuntu package. (i have a few ubuntu hardy desktops/laptops but i use pbuilder, not vserver, to build packages for them.) corey -- undefined@pobox.com