Subject: Re: [vserver] vServer Build mysteriously cleaning up existing runlevel (method "template")
From: "Daniel Hokka Zakrisson" <daniel@hozac.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 20:44:58 +0200

Hi,

Lars Bräuer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we roll out some vServers with the vserver build template function:
>
> vserver <name> build --context <num> --hostname <name> --interface <ip>  \
> -m template -- -t <tarball> -d debian

If you have a tarball that is configured the way you like it, you shouldn't
specify a distribution. That way, no post install script will be run, and
you are responsible for running it before.

Best regards,
Daniel

> The tarball contains an /etc/rc2.d directory with a few services
> preinstalled.
>
> vserver build uses the tarball leaving nothing but these two files in
> /etc/rc2.d:
>
> S01rsyslog -> ../init.d/rsyslog
> S03rc.local -> ../init.d/rc.local
>
> Why would vserver build clean up the runlevel and delete all other links?
> While all the preinstalled
> scripts have runlevel 2 set as "Default start" in the LSB header.
>
> I couldn't find an option to change this and I also didn't find something
> searching through
> /usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver-build*
>
> Any hints?
>
> Best regards
>
> Lars
>