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[Morphix-user] Need help with running servers off a livecd

[Soumyadip M. <sou...@gm...>]

Hi,
I'm trying to run apache2, postfix and dovecot off a Morphix live cd.
Now I have made a VM inside VMware server, installed Xubuntu Dapper in
it and customised it to my requirements. Then I rsynced the whole root
filesystem into a directory of my machine and then I used
module-builder and isomorph to build the live cd off the MorphixBase
iso. However postfix is not starting up and apache2 doesn't show
index.html off /var/www. Can somebody please tell me how to build a
livecd off a chroot ?

I don't know the attachment policy on this list, so I am not attaching
my init.sh file. I am attaching a link where the file can be browsed :
http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/20207 Hope that will help isolate the
problem.

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Re: [Morphix-user] Need help with running servers off a livecd

[Alex de L. <al...@de...>]

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Soumyadip Modak wrote:
> module-builder and isomorph to build the live cd off the MorphixBase
> iso. However postfix is not starting up and apache2 doesn't show
> index.html off /var/www. Can somebody please tell me how to build a
> livecd off a chroot ?

Hi Soumayadip,

First try to start apache/postfix from the livecd manually to determine
if they start at all. If not, then it's likely you're using an old
version of Morphix (most versions are, you might want to take a base iso
from morphix.org/autobuilds instead). Morphix has used a wide variety of
overlaying filesystems, and some of them are known to get in the way.

If they do work, then it's something in your init.sh. Perhaps firing off
the daemons using /etc/init.d/... start will work better.

cheers,

Alex
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Re: [Morphix-user] Need help with running servers off a livecd

[Soumyadip M. <sou...@gm...>]

On 8/11/06, Alex de Landgraaf <al...@de...> wrote:
> Hi Soumayadip,
>
> First try to start apache/postfix from the livecd manually to determine
> if they start at all. If not, then it's likely you're using an old
> version of Morphix (most versions are, you might want to take a base iso
> from morphix.org/autobuilds instead). Morphix has used a wide variety of
> overlaying filesystems, and some of them are known to get in the way.

Postfix seems to have some problems but apache does start. At least
nmap doesn't show port 25 to open. However, Apache somehow doesn't
serv up /var/www/index.html when I browse http://localhost. I'll try
telnetting into the servers today.

> If they do work, then it's something in your init.sh. Perhaps firing off
> the daemons using /etc/init.d/... start will work better.

I'll try that. The reason I'm not using the init.d scripts is that I
get better error messages, which helps in debugging.

Thanks for the tips.

> cheers,
>
> Alex


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Re: [Morphix-user] Need help with running servers off a livecd

[Soumyadip M. <sou...@gm...>]

On 8/11/06, Soumyadip Modak <sou...@gm...> wrote:
> On 8/11/06, Alex de Landgraaf <al...@de...> wrote:
> > Hi Soumayadip,
> >
> > First try to start apache/postfix from the livecd manually to determine
> > if they start at all. If not, then it's likely you're using an old
> > version of Morphix (most versions are, you might want to take a base iso
> > from morphix.org/autobuilds instead). Morphix has used a wide variety of
> > overlaying filesystems, and some of them are known to get in the way.

Postfix doesn't start, I get ERR from hidden dentry. nmap localhost
doesn't have port 25 open. mysqld also fails to start, and the
initscripts spews out a lot of oops and call traces.

> > If they do work, then it's something in your init.sh. Perhaps firing off
> > the daemons using /etc/init.d/... start will work better.
>
> I'll try that. The reason I'm not using the init.d scripts is that I
> get better error messages, which helps in debugging.
>
> Thanks for the tips.
>
> > cheers,
> >
> > Alex

Is there any base module that provides apache+modphp, sendmail/postfix
and dovecot/cyrus/courier that I can hack ??
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