You may receive an error “Unable to start init, probably incorrect template” while starting a VPS. The “incorrect template” problem occurs when the “init” on the VPS goes missing. The init file resides under /sbin i.e. check ls -la /vz/private/VEID/sbin/init of a VPS. If the file is missing or the file size is zero, your [...]
The “rpmdb open failed” error message is mostly received when the rpm databases __db.00* located under /var/lib/rpm directory are corrupted. This results in a “error: cannot open Packages database” message while installation/updatation of a package via yum. root@server [~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror error: no dbpath has been set error: cannot open Packages database [...]
You may receive the error message while starting a VPS on OpenVZ server. vzquota : (error) Quota getstat syscall for id 101: Inappropriate ioctl for device vzquota init failed [3] This is a typical Quota error message on OpenVZ servers while starting a VPS. The message indicates that you need to initialize quota on the [...]
How to re-create/re-install a OpenVZ VPS? 1) Make a backup of the configuration file: cp -p /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/VEID.conf /etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/VEID.conf_old 2) Stop the VPS: vzctl stop VEID 3) Destroy/Terminate the VPS: vzctl destroy VEID 4) Create the VPS using the OS templates stored under /vz/template/cache directory: vzctl recreate VEID –ostemplate os-template-name 5) Copy the original configuration file [...]
You see a message “Unable to fork: Cannot allocate memory” while logging to a VPS from the host server. The reason is the VPS is running out of resources especially RAM. To temporary solve the issue, you may restart the VPS by executing vzctl restart VEID OR increase RAM for the VPS by increasing privvmpages [...]
1. Host will be open on LAN and guests on WAN. Additionally, there is a bridged LAN for guests. 2. We will be using bridge networking for protecting the Host Network and saving IP addresses, also giving flexibility with the guest network setup. 3. Configure LAN Eth1 port to 192.168.1.2 4. WAN Eth0 port is [...]
If you manage several OpenVZ containers, here is a simple bash script to keep the OpenVZ containers upto date. #!/bin/bash # vzyum_updates.sh # updates VEs VE_LIST=$(/usr/sbin/vzlist -H -o veid | grep -v Warning) for VE in ${VE_LIST} do /usr/bin/vzyum $VE update done exit 0 Incoming search terms:openvz bash scripts (1)
Here’s is a simple shell script to run a weekly lvm snapshot dump of all OpenVZ containers using the vzdump utility: #!/bin/bash # ve_dumps.sh # Dump all VEs# Todays’ date DATE=$(date +%d) # Paths BAK_PATH=/opt/bak/vz_dumps # Week of month BAK_DIR=$(cal | awk -v date=”${DATE}” ‘{ for( i=1; i <= NF ; i++ ) if [...]
