On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:53:54PM +0200, Raphael Bauduin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:16:33PM +0200, Raphael Bauduin wrote: >>> Hi, >>> To backup my vservers, I run a script from cron, and this >>> script stop, backups up and starts each vserver. >>> The vserver command however outputs this error: >>> stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device >> please show us the script and the crontab invocation > Here's the script > #!/bin/bash > . ./backup_vars.sh > for d in /var/lib/vservers/* ; do > vserver=$(basename $d) > vserver --silent $vserver stop > ./vs_time_machine.sh $d > vserver --silent $vserver start > done > And cron invocation: > 00 04 * * * root cd /usr/local/shbackup/ && ./sync_vservers.sh >/dev/null >>> Any idea how I can avoir this error message? the message most likely originates from within a/the guest, which, for whatever reason, tries to do something to the controlling terminal (e.g. figure out what kind of terminal that is or change some parameters) >>> I'm running on debian: >>> ii util-vserver 0.30.216~r2772-6 >>> user-space tools for Linux-VServer virtual private servers >> better update to a more recent version >>> ii vserver-debiantools 0.6.3 >>> Tools to manage debian virtual servers >> better get rid of that completely before it does >> some real damage (but maybe it already did) how was the guest created? > I wans't aware of that. Can you point me to some docs about it > (a quick google and search on the website didn't return info > about the dangers) in short, vserver-debiantools are deprecated because: - they are debian only and Linux-VServer is distro agnostic, so anything done there should better be done in util-vserver (upstream) - the maintainer (Ola Lundqvist) doesn't cooperate with Linux-VServer, even worse, he actively blocks necessary updates to util-vserver - the tools are ancient, and as far as I know they have not been updated at all, i.e. they still asume util-vserver 0.30.204 or similar (from 2005) - they do not configure guests in a secure way - they do not support most of the features and most importantly: - they cause constant grieve to the Linux-VServer developers, because folks think that they are maintained and supported (and thus come here to complain about strange effects and/or subtle bugs) in general, please use on your own risk, and most importantly, do not bother the util-vserver or kernel developers with effects related to them .... thanks, Herbert > Thanks > Raph >> best, >> Herbert >>> Thx >>> Raph > -- > Web database: http://www.myowndb.com > Free Software Developers Meeting: http://www.fosdem.org