Difference between revisions of "util-vserver:InitStyles"

Revision as of 02:10, 14 December 2006

Guests can be started using one of the following

plain
- Launches a unique init process for the guest.
- Guest's init process executes the rc scripts.
- Therefore, you cannot watch the startup process.
- However, shutdown or restart command will work
sysv (default)
- Executes the runlevel scripts directly.
- You can you can watch the startup process.
- Slightly lighter weight since no additional init process is needed.
- A fake init process is shown in the guest.
- You must use "reboot -f" or "halt -f" to restart or shut down from withint the guest.
gentoo
- Like sysv but works on Gentoo-based guests.
- Was deprecated but has been reinstated around util-vserver 0.30.212.
minit
- Like plain init but smaller.
- minit must be installed on the guest.
- http://www.fefe.de/minit/

The init style should go in a file containing the init style as a single word.

 /etc/vservers/<NAME>/apps/init/style

If the file doesn't exist or the word isn't recognized, sysv will be used.

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 === Configuration ===
-The init style should go in /etc/vservers/<vservername>/apps/init/style, a file containing a single word.  If the file doesn't exist, sysv will be used.
+The init style should go in a file containing the init style as a single word.
+  /etc/vservers/<NAME>/apps/init/style
+If the file doesn't exist or the word isn't recognized, sysv will be used.