Subject: Re: [vserver] support for Alpine Linux
From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:31:13 +0200

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 14:42 +0200, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> Natanael Copa wrote:

> > But what I really need is only to run /etc/init.d/rcL on start
> > and /etc/init.d/rcK && killall5 on stop so I thought I would try to
> > start an initstyle called "alpine" by
> > modifying /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver.functions:
> 
> You really don't have to. Just use the sysv initstyle and set
> /etc/vservers/<guest>/apps/init/cmd.start and
> /etc/vservers/<guest>/apps/init/cmd.stop to the appropriate commands.

[...]

> Which means your guest started and exited before the start script was
> finished. You're going to need some sort of service running inside to use
> an init-less guest, or to make the contexts persistent.

ah... Starting cron now using sysv style and it works!
Thanks alot!

[...]

> > Would you be interested in patches so next official release of
> > util-vserver has support for alpine linux?
> 
> I guess so...

I will return with question about how to add support for another package
manager (non rpm, non apt). I could not find any documentation aoub
that.

Thanks!