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From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Subject: Re: runit on Debian vserver (related to #306390)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:02:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060724100240.29400.qmail@7219b380d40f54.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607201724.32202.bernhard@intevation.de>

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:24:28PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> yesterday I ran in the same problem as Debian bug #306390
> with runit-1.0.5-3.

> I have just run into the same problem with runit 1.5.0-1 (Debian 
> stable).because the vserver was set up already I thought it was a runit bug.
> My other administrator spend quite some time for it,
> so the bug is not closed from my point of view.
> 
> To close it, I suggest to add a hint when telinit q (aka kill -s HUP 1) fails:
> 
> "You might be in a vserver environment where telinit q does not work.
> A workaround is to comment out kill -s HUB 1 in the postinst script
> and start runit differently. 
> Another workaround one is to make the vserver recognise
> telinit and use inittab to start things (initstyle plain)."
> 
> Of course, in case of failure the postinst should remove
> the inittab entry again, to avoid problems in the next run.

Ok, thanks for the hint, I'll see what I can do.

> On my installation the problem is solved,
> but it took a bit of time to find the problem and I would save others 
> the time with this hint.
> 
> Thanks a lot for runit, I find it a nice software with well written
> documentation and Free Software.

Thanks, Gerrit.


      reply	other threads:[~2006-07-24 10:02 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <20060719143952.BD73418EE4C@kolab.intevation.de>
2006-07-20 15:24 ` Bernhard Reiter
2006-07-24 10:02   ` Gerrit Pape [this message]

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