From: edward_at_DigitalAngel.com.au
Date: Wed 18 Dec 2002 - 11:03:05 GMT
I wouldn't advise it because:
1) If you have some services running inside this vserver
and there is a security hole in rpm ( e.g. /tmp/ exploits etc in the past.. - it's best
to always assume that there is one)
it may be possible for the malicious user to gain access to the root server
that way.
2) Some rpm packages may contain scripts that stop/start some services.
These are executed as part of the "rpm -U" and are not vserver-aware
so they may stop/start services in the root context.
hth
Ed
On Wednesday, 18 December 2002 at 10:18, djp_at_comm.it wrote:
> You should be able to update a vserver with
>
> rpm --root /vserver/vsname -Uvh <packages>
>
> This should be run as root from the root server (and It does not require
> to change the permission of /vservers).