[Lxc-users] Startup scripts [Was: Re: security question]

[Matto Fransen]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 06:01:02PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
 
> FWIW:
> 
> I've been using the file-rc boot script mechanisms rather than the sysv-rc 
> system for LXC containers. That might seem like a step backwards, but 
> actually, it's fine and gives you much finer (& easier IMO) control over 
> what gets started and stopped when a container is booted. You still get 
> the usual /etc/init.d with scripts in it, but rather than a lot of 
> /etc/rc.X directorys, just one file; /etc/runlevel.conf with hooks into 
> the scripts and what runlevels to execute them in.

I have a custom /etc/init.d/rcS in my LXC containers. That file contain some 
lines like 

/etc/init.d/ssh start
/etc/init.d/mysql start
/etc/init.d/apache2 start

This provides a lot of control and prevent a lot of trouble IMHO :)

Cheers,

Matto