Yes you can leave it without, but in this case if you defined it in the "old" vserver you would have to change it in the "new" vserver.
Also, I do not know if this is really the case, but I felt that having fixed context IDs is much more stable than having dynamic ones.
----- Original Message -----
From: Youri LACAN-BARTLEY <ylacan@teicam.com>
To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:15:43 AM GMT+0100
Subject: Re: [Vserver] Cloning a vserver
IIRC, there is no need to manually specify the context ID ...
Christian Knauber wrote:
> Did you change the context id of the new vserver ?
> It is defined in the file /etc/vservers/new/context.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> Christian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Odile Bénassy <odile.benassy@jm.u-psud.fr>
> To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 9:18:27 AM GMT+0100
> Subject: [Vserver] Cloning a vserver
>
> Hello,
>
> I hope not to disturb with a low-level question, I still hope will be
> useful to others.
>
> I'm very happy with my vservers in general, I must say, and the users
> too, of course.
>
> I want to copy a vserver into a second one, because the second one will
> run the same software.
>
> So I had an IP .xxx and a name "old"
>
> And I want a new IP .yyy and a new name "new"
>
> 1) I copied all the /vservers/old to /vservers/new
>
> 2) I copied all the /etc/vservers/old to /etc/vservers/new and also
> /etc/vservers/old.conf to /etc/vservers/new.conf
>
> 3) I went into /etc/vservers/new.conf, into /etc/vservers/new, into
> /vservers/new/etc and change there every string .xxx into .yyy, and
> "old" into "new"
>
> 4) I fixed the /etc/vservers/new symlink
>
> Now both vservers can start and stop. I can ping both IPs.
>
> But if I enter "new" I am in "old".
>
> What do I have left behind?
>
>
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