On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 02:58:00PM +0100, Oliver Heinz wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 21. November 2006 00:28 schrieb Oliver Heinz:
> > Am Montag, 20. November 2006 23:07 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:
> > [...]
> >
> > > sorry, missed that one on the reread
> >
> > that's why I do some cleanup to the mail - i starts getting a little
> > messy
> >
> > > > dakar:~ # ls -la /dev/ptmx
> > > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 Sep 23 2003 /dev/ptmx
> > > >
> > > > dakar:~ # mount
> > > > /dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw)
> > > > proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> > > > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
> > >
> > > looks fine, let's also check /proc/mounts to make
> > > sure that mount (and mtab) is not lying
> >
> > liar:
>
> o.k. it was late yesterday... cat /proc/mounts did not lie (of course)
> but the mtab and mount command did
>
> >
> > dakar:~ # cat /proc/mounts
> > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> > /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0
> > none /proc proc rw,nodiratime 0 0
> > /dev/root /home ext3 rw 0 0
> > /dev/root /backup/gobi ext3 rw 0 0
> > /dev/sda3 /backup/gobi/srv ext3 rw 0 0
> > /dev/sda3 /srv/www/htdocs/vhosts ext3 rw 0 0
> > /dev/sda3 /srv/www/htdocs/php-inc ext3 rw 0 0
> > ...
> >.
> > which is the real mounts on the root server
>
> no they were not - I was mistaken, thats the mounts as defined
> in /etc/vserver/dakar/fstab - so everything fine here except...
> there is no mounted /dev/pts :-(
>
> Today i did a minimum suse 9 system and no problems at all :-)
>
> So after a little comparison between the configs I found that I had
> disabled the /dev/pts for some reason (which I don't remember), so
> i uncommented that an voila, everything work like a charm with and
> without --vlogin in the vserver sbin.
great!
> So the new vserver-utils seem to require the /dev/pts mounted while
> the old didn't. (Herbert was on the right track from the beginning)
yes, the pts is more secure (because isolated) than
the legacy ptys (deprecated for a few years now :)
> It would be great if the error message could give those dimwitted
> users like me a little hint like "is your devpts mounted inside the
> guest?' or 'does your guest's fstab contain an devpts entry?'.
and what would we folks do instead? play golf? :)
glad that it works now,
have fun,
Herbert
> Thanks a million for your help,
> Oliver
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Received on Tue Nov 21 19:41:53 2006