Subject: Re: [vserver] /var/run/vservers/$vserver keeps disappearing
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:58:04 +0200

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:35:38AM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,

>>> I now discovered that this is because
>>> /var/run/vservers/$vserver disappear after a short vserver
>>> uptime. So, I restored the files manually, but they
>>> disappeared again.

>> Sounds strange the main question IMHO is:

>> Is it just the files disappearing or does the context
>> end because the last process exits?

> I got it: It was a mistake I made when copying one 
> /etc/vservers/$vserver to another, I forgot to change the run
> link afterwards, so that two /etc/vservers/$vserver/run links
> pointed at the same file.

Ah, yes, that explains it!
Glad it could be resolved.

> You mentioned systemd, so I want to tell that I applied the
> systemd patch for util-vserver and did not detect any problem
> with that so far.

Good to know! Thanks for the feedback!

Best,
Herbert

> Regards
>   Christoph