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[Mario Lipinski <mario AT cacert.org>]

I agree with you. However, it doesn't seem possible with LXC.
On solution I anticipate is placing a halt/reboot script in the
container which creates a /.reboot or /.halt file in the container and
on the host a cron-job that periodically checks for this file and stops
or restarts the container and removes the file.

Mario

Am 23.09.2013 21:50, schrieb Bas van den Dikkenberg:
> Just my two cent's ,
>  
>  
> A sysadmin must alway have abilety to reboot server/host/container.
>  
> I know restarting a service is beter most of the times but, not always
> the fastestes way.
> So i think it should be fixed that a host/container can be rebooted
>  
> With kind regards,
>  
> Bas van den Dikkenberg
>  
> *Van:* Michael Tänzer
> *Verzonden:* ‎23‎-‎sep‎-‎13 ‎21‎:‎00
> *Aan:* 
> cacert-sysadm AT lists.cacert.org
> *Onderwerp:* Re: Bugs.c.o not rebooting properly
>  
> Hi,
> 
> On 23.09.2013 20:43, Mario Lipinski wrote:
>> Am 23.09.2013 17:32, schrieb Wytze van der Raay:
>>> but the vm is still not reachable ... and I don't know why.
>>> I guess that Mario or Jan need to look at this ...
>>
>> First, you should not reboot or shutdown the lxc containers. It is
>> sufficient to restart the services.
> 
> Ok, I didn't know about that, I thought that they behave just like a
> normal virtual machine. I wanted to make sure that every service was
> running with the updated binaries and libraries. How do I restart all
> services? Is there an easy way or do I have to restart each running
> service manually? I guess changing runlevels is not a good option as it
> might leave me without any running services => no SSH access.
> 
>> Second, there seems to be a problem with Wheezy and setting the default
>> gateway. I added this to /etc/rc.local which should bring up the network
>> properly after boot.
> 
> Can we build a knowledge base of some sorts for these little things you
> have to know if you're administering a host on the CAcert infrastructure
> so I can have a look once in a while if I do any special operations on
> the services like upgrades? This should contain known issues with some
> component (like the wheezy thing), curiousities of the environment (e.g.
> that you should not shut it down, what you should do instead etc).
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Michael Tänzer
> 



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Mario Lipinski
Infrastructure Team Leader,         E-Mail: 
mario AT cacert.org
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