[Users] Scripting ve creation

[Kirill Korotaev]

Can you please run the following command:
# vzclt exec 110 strace -f -o /tmp/out apt-get install exim4
and send me /tmp/out file (it will be created inside VE)?

Thanks,
Kirill
P.S. it may require installing strace package first.

Steve Hodges wrote:
> I'm trying to script the creation of a number of VEs.  The template is a 
> minimal Debian Etch.
> 
> part of what I'm trying to do is thinks like:
> 
> vzctl exec 110 apt-get install exim4
> 
> exim is one of those packages that wants to run dpkg-configure as part 
> of the install (actually I think it's dpkg-preconfigure, but it's the 
> same sort of thing)
> 
> When it gets to that stage it complains that it "can't re-open stdin" 
> and generally fails to complete the install.
> 
> Is there any way of executing a whole series of commands like this 
> without having to run them all manually.  Some things have to be done 
> from outside the VE too, so just running a script in the VE is 
> problematic :-(
> 
> Steve
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