is there documentation somewhere for the process of building lx branded zone images? i've done this before for containers and minimal vms on linux, but i'm new to illumos and i can't find anything specifying what's expected to exist in this image. is it just a normal rootfs? it seems like some of the joyent built ones have systemd inside them, which was unexpected to me.

So I have set up a zrepl to a dedicated backup server this way: extrowerk.com/2026-03-03/ZFS-replacation-with-zrepl.html However after rebooting the backup server I had to see zrepl doesn1t works. It seems the folder where the sockets should be created is missing. I see in the logs: stat /var/run/zrepl/stdinserver: no such file or directory"

and the /var/run/zrepl/stdinserver is missing, while the /var/run/zrepl is there. Creating the fodler manually, and setting it to 400 and restarting the svc makes it work.

I am not sure what should create this folder?

The /var/run filesystem is a tmpfs; the contents are lost when the machine reboots

any service that uses subdirectories of /var/run needs to arrange to create them when the service is started at boot time.

(and set permissions as needed)

zrepl.github.io/configuration/trans…orts.html#transport-ssh-stdinserver suggests that /var/run/zrepl/stdinserver should be a directory. Something needs to recreate it after reboot.

snek: it's a rootfs. just sometimes injecting configs to make systemd not use cgroups and namespaces. As those do not exist on illumos

nice, ok

szilard - The zrepl package should be creating that directory before starting the service

So it sounds like it should also be creating the stdinserver directory if that's a standard thing.

Maybe this file should be extended with the stdinserver folder.

is there a reason why pkgsrc hasn't seen an update since december?