Subject: Re: [vserver] kill -9 1 doesn't work?
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 21:28:22 +0200

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:19:52AM +0200, Wilhelm wrote:
> Hi all,

> as a last resort to stop upstart-based vserver it tries to modifiy 
> sendsigs to issue a

> kill -9 1

> But this doesn't work from inside a vserver. 
> From host a vkill ... is ok. 
> Looks like the syscall is somehow redirected.

kernel, patch and util-vserver version?
and what config has the guest regarding init?

> Any hints to enable this?

really depends on the kernel implementation,
but usually you need to override checks in
kill_something_info()

HTH,
Herbert

> -- 
> Wilhelm