From: James Noble (james_at_exactauctions.com)
Date: Tue 23 Dec 2003 - 08:48:34 GMT
Hello, Yes it was a debian tool, I just like it, I have been using it on many servers (we have more than 300 of them here) and never had a problem with the RPM db, If you want to use something else instead, by all means, go ahead, and post your adaptaion of the instructions to the wiki.
James
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On 12/23/2003 at 12:12 PM John Francis Lee wrote:
>Hello,
>
>The server has a redhat 8.0 installation in the / partition and a
>separate partition mounted on /vservers to which I would like to add my
>vservers.
>
>Isn't apt-get a debian tool? Won't it confuse the rpm database? I have
>manually upgraded several packages from the fedora ftp site, notably
>openssl and openssh... but others as well. Will apt-get interfere with
>this?
>
>My sever is not accessible from outside. Thanks for the offer.
>
>And thanks for your continuing help and patience.
>
>On อ., 2003-12-23 at 09:42, James Noble wrote:
>> No, I have not had that problem. is this a fresh redhat server, and did
>you do the updates with ag?
>>
>> I am willing to take a look, if your server is accessable, just set the
>login info, and mail to me directly@ james_at_exactauctions.com
>>
>> James
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>> On 12/22/2003 at 9:32 PM John Francis Lee wrote:
>>
>> >Hello again James,
>> >
>> >I reinstalled the rpms as you suggested and things went much better
>> >after that.
>> >
>> >But the installation hangs after some small number of rpms is installed.
>> >
>> >I have to kill the rpm process and delete and rebuild the rpm database.
>> >Then the same thing happens again.
>> >
>> >I had this problem initially when I was running install-rh8.0 by hand.
>> >
>> >Have you seen it yourself?
>> >
>> >I've upgraded to rpm-4.2.1.
>> >
>> >On ., 2003-12-22 at 14:21, James Noble wrote:
>> >> Hello, I do not know why, vservers seems to want it.
>> >>
>> >> if the rpm's were installed then you should have those files, try
>> >rerunning the instructions, and se if they show up
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Let me know if you have any more troubles,
>> >>
>> >> James
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>> >> On 12/22/2003 at 12:59 PM John Francis Lee wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Hello James Noble,
>> >> >
>> >> >Thank you for your How-To.
>> >> >
>> >> >I'm following along, more or less, and am at
>> >> > service nscd start
>> >> > chkconfig nscd on 345
>> >> >Why do I need the nameserver cache demon?
>> >> >
>> >> > pico /etc/vservers.conf
>> >> > (set BACKGROUND=yes)
>> >> >I don't have an /etc/vservers.conf
>> >> >
>> >> >I found a file named
>> >> > vserver-0.29/distrib/sample.conf
>> >> >but it looks as though it wants to source the same non-existent
>> >> >/etc/vservers.conf to which you refer.
>> >> >
>> >> > pico /etc/vservers/newvserver.defaults
>> >> >Neither do I have an
>> >> > /etc/vservers/
>> >> >directory nor a
>> >> > /etc/vservers/newvserver.defaults
>> >> >file.
>> >> >
>> >> >Can you point me to copies of these somewhere that I might customize
>and
>> >> >make my own?
>> >> >
>> >> >Thanks very much for the How-To and for any further help you might
>give
>> >> >here.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >On ., 2003-12-21 at 20:31, James Noble wrote:
>> >> >> http://www.linux-vserver.org/index.php?page=New-Howto
>> >> >>
>> >> >> its rough, anyone who wants to can edit as needed.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> James Noble
>> >> >>
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