[lxc-devel] Improved sysvinit script

[Gianluigi Tiesi]

On 02/27/14 15:22, Dwight Engen wrote:
> These changes will break the script on Fedora and derived distros. The
> reason for /var/lock/subsys is that without it [1], SysV init (on Fedora at
> least) won't call the K script at shutdown time so the containers don't
> get a chance to shut down cleanly.

this is not really an issue, vmware does
[ -d /var/lock/subsys ] || mkdir -p /var/lock/subsys
before doing touch
it's harmless on debian but I don't think it usefull for debian

>
> There are other problems as well, /lib/lsb/init-functions might not
> exist, and even when it does on Fedora it does not contain
> log_progress_msg() nor log_daemon_msg().
>
> Maybe it is not practical to have a cross distro sysvinit script?
> Perhaps we should have distro specific scripts ala the way we do
> default.conf in lxc/config/etc?

Most of the script can be shared, there is already a configure time 
switch (with-distro), you can make lxc.in and replace the distro 
specific parts:

I'll check fedora init docs and make a patch, but doesn't fedora uses 
systemd now?

I don't think lxc is suitable for old distributions, I had to use 
kernels from backports to have a good support in debian stable (3.11 vs 
3.2.0)
and I still waiting for 3.13 because 3.12 breaks lxc-attach

Regards

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