stripserver - Strip a server from hardware related packages and files

stripserver [OPTIONS] --hostname x --domain y.z --ip 1.2.3.4

This program strips a server directory from packages and files that is hardware related. This means that you can copy a complete filesystem to a vserver directory and then use this tool to strip the hardware related things from it. It only works with Debian servers though.

Optional: -h, --help this help -V, --version copyright and version information --copy-vreboot install vreboot/vshutdown/vhalt --no-copy-vreboot don't install vreboot/vshutdown/vhalt --dist defaults to sarge, passed to debootstrap. --fakeinit use /sbin/init to boot vserver --conffile extra configuration file to load. --interface interface for IP addresses (if not eth0) --sshkeys copy pub-keys to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys -v, --verbose show extra output during setup --vsroot location of /vserver/ directory Required: --hostname hostname for new vserver (eg. alpha) --domain dns domain for new vserver (eg. example.com) --ip IPv4 address for new vserver

The following variables can be set in a configuration file. The configuration file is a normal shell file and is sourced to get the configuration variables.

Packages to install in addition to the base defaults MUST INCLUDE ALL DEPENDENCIES (seperated by , commas)

INSTALL_PACKAGES=package1,package2

Packages installed from within the vserver after it has been setup (seperated by , commas) EXTRA_PACKAGES=package1,package2

Packages to remove from the base defaults (seperated by , commas) REMOVE_PACKAGES=package1,package2

Sysvinit services relating to hardware access to remove REMOVE_LINKS=klogd hwclock.sh setserial urandom networking umountfs halt reboot

Which debian distribution (Warning. unstable and testing distributions change frequently so you can not expect it to work out of the box). DIST=sarge

Default network interface for vservers: INTERFACE=eth0

Copy vreboot/vhalt/vshutdown utility into /usr/local/sbin/ COPY_VREBOOT=true

Author of the manual page is Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>

vserver(1), dupvserver(1), newvserver(1)