| How to do ANYTHING with the opensuse template cache? [message #4980] |
Mon, 07 August 2006 11:45  |
Markus KARG
Messages: 2
Registered: August 2006
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I am new to OpenVZ and must confess that I am one of those admins that
really do not know anything on text based administration but do always
use GUI-based version of YaST2... So I have a bit a problem with the
OpenSuSE template cache that can be downloaded from the OpenVZ web site.
Actually it was pretty easy to set up OpenVZ and create and run a VPS
using the prebuilt OpenSuSE tarball found on the OpenVZ web site. I can
use the vzctl enter 101 backdoor to have TTL access, do ps -A and such
things.
Now I want to use "real" administrative access to set up the services I
like to run. But in fact it seems the OpenSuSE template has switched off
nearly everything. ssh, telnet, rlogin... everything I can imagine
fails (ok, ping works...).
So I tried to use text mode yast2 within the backdoor, but while this
truely starts yast (can see it in ps), still nothing gets shown on the
screen (seems the backdoor is unable to handle its ncurses based GUI).
Okay, I give up now.
Can anybody tell me how to get an administrative access to that OpenSuSE
VPS...?
I'm quite desperate...
Thanks in advance!
Markus
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| Re: How to do ANYTHING with the opensuse template cache? [message #4986 is a reply to message #4980] |
Mon, 07 August 2006 15:05  |
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Markus KARG wrote:
> I am new to OpenVZ and must confess that I am one of those admins that
> really do not know anything on text based administration but do always
> use GUI-based version of YaST2... So I have a bit a problem with the
> OpenSuSE template cache that can be downloaded from the OpenVZ web site.
>
> Actually it was pretty easy to set up OpenVZ and create and run a VPS
> using the prebuilt OpenSuSE tarball found on the OpenVZ web site. I can
> use the vzctl enter 101 backdoor to have TTL access, do ps -A and such
> things.
>
> Now I want to use "real" administrative access to set up the services I
> like to run. But in fact it seems the OpenSuSE template has switched off
> nearly everything. ssh, telnet, rlogin... everything I can imagine
> fails (ok, ping works...).
>
(1) As far as I remember, ssh and httpd are on by default in opensuse
template.
(2) To enable services from the command like, you can use
/sbin/chkconfig utility.
Examples:
/sbin/chkconfig --list
will give you a list of all services and their settings on different
runlevels
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 sshd on
will enable sshd for runlevels 3, 4, and 5
/sbin/chkconfig --list sshd
will show you the settings for sshd
Finally, if you want, say, sshd to start without reboot, run
/etc/init.d/sshd start
> So I tried to use text mode yast2 within the backdoor, but while this
> truely starts yast (can see it in ps), still nothing gets shown on the
> screen (seems the backdoor is unable to handle its ncurses based GUI).
>
> Okay, I give up now.
> Can anybody tell me how to get an administrative access to that OpenSuSE
> VPS...?
> I'm quite desperate...
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
The other problem that can happen with opensuse template is UBC
shortage. Take a look at http://wiki.openvz.org/Resource_shortage.
Basically, you need to check /proc/user_beancounters inside a VE and if
the last column contains non-zero numbers, do something about it (see
the wiki article referenced above).
Finally, I will be updating opensuse template really soon (this week I
hope), and will post a detailed HOWTO on how you can create your own
opensuse template with all the software and settings you want to have.
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| Re: How to do ANYTHING with the opensuse template cache? [message #5025 is a reply to message #4986] |
Tue, 08 August 2006 17:50 |
Markus KARG
Messages: 2
Registered: August 2006
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>>
> (1) As far as I remember, ssh and httpd are on by default in opensuse
> template.
>
> (2) To enable services from the command like, you can use
> /sbin/chkconfig utility.
> Examples:
>
> /sbin/chkconfig --list
> will give you a list of all services and their settings on different
> runlevels
>
> /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 sshd on
> will enable sshd for runlevels 3, 4, and 5
>
> /sbin/chkconfig --list sshd
> will show you the settings for sshd
>
> Finally, if you want, say, sshd to start without reboot, run
> /etc/init.d/sshd start
I checked sshd using chkconfig sshd and it seems to be running, but I am
getting "connection refused" always. Also I cannot stop sshd:
"/etc/init.d/sshd stop" just hangs, never comes back. As yast behaves
the same way, I start thinking that OpenVZ just is not compatible with
SuSE 10.1. Maybe I should switch to Debian and try to learn about OpenVZ
there?
Thanks for all
Markus
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| Re: How to do ANYTHING with the opensuse template cache? [message #5026 is a reply to message #5025] |
Tue, 08 August 2006 18:04 |
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Markus KARG wrote:
> I checked sshd using chkconfig sshd and it seems to be running, but I am
> getting "connection refused" always. Also I cannot stop sshd:
> "/etc/init.d/sshd stop" just hangs, never comes back. As yast behaves
> the same way, I start thinking that OpenVZ just is not compatible with
> SuSE 10.1. Maybe I should switch to Debian and try to learn about OpenVZ
> there?
>
Markus,
I will try to address these issues this week. It looks like problems
with the template or its UBC configuration (which I mentioned earlier).
So far, my advise is to try some other OS templates -- either Debian or
Fedora Core.
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