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# simple script to create OpenVZ ArchServer template.
# For the original script see http://wiki.openvz.org/Talk:Archlinux_Template_creation

DISTRO=archserver
VERSION=20100702 

PACKS="sed gawk coreutils texinfo filesystem grep pacman logrotate 
module-init-tools wget curl net-tools procps tar cpio zip 
gzip bzip2 psmisc initscripts iputils dnsutils iproute2 
less dash which openssh vim vixie-cron sudo htop dcron rsyslog       
util-linux-ng"                                                      


MIRROR1=http://repo.archserver.org/redgum
MIRROR2=ftp://repo.archserver.org/redgum 

if [[ ${1} == 64 ]]; then
  ARCH=x86_64            
else                     
  if [[ ${1} == 32 ]]; then
    ARCH=i686              
  else                     
    echo "Usage: ${0} 32|64"
    exit 1                  
  fi                        
fi                          

ROOT=${DISTRO}-${VERSION}-${ARCH}

TEMPLATE=$(pwd)/${ROOT}.tar.gz

if [[ "$(whoami)" == "root" ]]; then
        echo "Building template: ${ROOT}"
else                                     
        echo "This script must be run as root (or with sudo)"
        exit 1                                               
fi                                                           

cat <<EOF > pacman.conf
[options]              
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
SyncFirst   = pacman      

[server-core]
Server = ${MIRROR1}/server-core/os/${ARCH}
Server = ${MIRROR2}/server-core/os/${ARCH}

[testing]
Server = ${MIRROR1}/testing/os/${ARCH}
Server = ${MIRROR2}/testing/os/${ARCH}
EOF

mkarchroot -C pacman.conf ${ROOT} ${PACKS}

chmod 666 ${ROOT}/dev/null
chmod 666 ${ROOT}/dev/zero
mknod -m 666 ${ROOT}/dev/random c 1 8
mknod -m 666 ${ROOT}/dev/urandom c 1 9
mkdir -m 755 ${ROOT}/dev/pts
mkdir -m 1777 ${ROOT}/dev/shm
mknod -m 666 ${ROOT}/dev/tty c 5 0
mknod -m 666 ${ROOT}/dev/full c 1 7
mknod -m 600 ${ROOT}/dev/initctl p
mknod -m 666 ${ROOT}/dev/ptmx c 5 2


# we don't need any getty entries in a container
sed 's/^.*getty.*$/#&/' -i ${ROOT}/etc/inittab
echo "sshd: ALL: ALLOW" >> ${ROOT}/etc/hosts.allow
cd ${ROOT}
tar czvf ${TEMPLATE} .

echo "Created template: ${ROOT}"

[root@ks369514 ~]# vzctl --verbose enter 888
entered into CT 888
[root@meagan /]# ls -lh /dev
total 4.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      160 2010-07-25 12:07 char
crw------- 1 root root   5,   1 2010-02-04 17:41 console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       11 2010-07-25 11:52 core -> /proc/kcore
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       13 2010-07-25 11:52 fd -> /proc/self/fd
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root   1,   7 2010-07-25 12:07 full
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root  10, 229 2010-02-04 17:41 fuse
prw------- 1 root root        0 2010-07-25 12:07 initctl
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root   1,  11 2010-02-04 17:41 kmsg
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root        0 2010-07-25 12:07 log
brw-rw---- 1 root disk   7,   0 2010-02-04 17:41 loop0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root       60 2010-02-04 17:41 net
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root   1,   3 2010-07-25 12:07 null
crw------- 1 root root 108,   0 2010-02-04 17:41 ppp
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty    5,   2 2010-07-25 12:15 ptmx
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root        0 2010-07-25 12:07 pts
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root   1,   8 2010-07-25 12:07 random
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root       40 2010-07-25 12:07 shm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       15 2010-07-25 11:52 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       15 2010-07-25 11:52 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       15 2010-07-25 11:52 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root        3 2010-07-25 12:07 tty[0-9]*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root   1,   9 2010-07-25 12:07 urandom
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root   1,   5 2010-07-25 12:07 zero

debug1: read_passphrase: can't open /dev/tty: No such file or directory

cp /etc/vz/dists/arch.conf /etc/vz/dists/archserver.conf