On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:53:54PM +0200, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:16:33PM +0200, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> To backup my vservers, I run a script from cron, and this
>>> script stop, backups up and starts each vserver.
>>> The vserver command however outputs this error:
>>> stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>> please show us the script and the crontab invocation
> Here's the script
> #!/bin/bash
> . ./backup_vars.sh
> for d in /var/lib/vservers/* ; do
> vserver=$(basename $d)
> vserver --silent $vserver stop
> ./vs_time_machine.sh $d
> vserver --silent $vserver start
> done
> And cron invocation:
> 00 04 * * * root cd /usr/local/shbackup/ && ./sync_vservers.sh >/dev/null
>>> Any idea how I can avoir this error message?
the message most likely originates from within a/the guest,
which, for whatever reason, tries to do something to the
controlling terminal (e.g. figure out what kind of terminal
that is or change some parameters)
>>> I'm running on debian:
>>> ii util-vserver 0.30.216~r2772-6
>>> user-space tools for Linux-VServer virtual private servers
>> better update to a more recent version
>>> ii vserver-debiantools 0.6.3
>>> Tools to manage debian virtual servers
>> better get rid of that completely before it does
>> some real damage (but maybe it already did)
how was the guest created?
> I wans't aware of that. Can you point me to some docs about it
> (a quick google and search on the website didn't return info
> about the dangers)
in short, vserver-debiantools are deprecated because:
- they are debian only and Linux-VServer is distro
agnostic, so anything done there should better be
done in util-vserver (upstream)
- the maintainer (Ola Lundqvist) doesn't cooperate
with Linux-VServer, even worse, he actively blocks
necessary updates to util-vserver
- the tools are ancient, and as far as I know they
have not been updated at all, i.e. they still asume
util-vserver 0.30.204 or similar (from 2005)
- they do not configure guests in a secure way
- they do not support most of the features
and most importantly:
- they cause constant grieve to the Linux-VServer
developers, because folks think that they are
maintained and supported (and thus come here to
complain about strange effects and/or subtle bugs)
in general, please use on your own risk, and most
importantly, do not bother the util-vserver or kernel
developers with effects related to them ....
thanks,
Herbert
> Thanks
> Raph
>> best,
>> Herbert
>>> Thx
>>> Raph
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Received on Wed Aug 24 14:05:17 2011