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Re: Daemons in schroot or how to start chroot automatically



On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 05:27:14PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote:
> On Son, 2012-07-22 at 15:58 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 03:25:49PM +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote:
> > > On Sam, 2012-07-21 at 22:05 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > > > I would also check the return status of schroot.  If sid-sab
> > > > already exists, then session creation will fail, and you'll
> > > > reuse the old session.  That might not be incorrect, but
> > > > in the general case, I'd recommend checking.
> > > 
> > > I was thinking about this too. But I saw no need to create a new session
> > > if the old is still there.
> > > What could be drawbacks of doing so?
> > 
> > None really; they can even persist across reboots.  (That's what
> > the "recover-session" action is for.)
> 
> Hmm, then maybe I should check if there'are lost sessions upon the start
> of the script?
> Or will either schroot -b or -r work with such a lost session?

By default, the schroot init script will automatically recover any
sessions at boot (see /etc/default/schroot).  So you shouldn't have
to worry about that.  It's basically just running the setup scripts
again to ensure that all filesystems are mounted, etc.


Regards,
Roger

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