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Using: Ubuntu Server 14.04 x64 LXD 2.0.0

I have several containers (all of them running "alpine-edge") in which I'm running lighttpd + mysql.

The problem is that each time I restart the containers I have to restart manually those services as they don't start automatically.

What do I need to do to fix that?

UPDATE

The temporally work-around that I'm using is to:

lxc exec alpine-edge service lighttpd start

from the parent OS (inside an init script). But I believe there should be a way to do it automatically inside the container, so if I manually reboot it (the container), I don't have to execute that command each time.

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  • Have you enabled these services on the containers (as in service enable <service-name>)? – Jonathan Y. May 24 '16 at 20:58
  • No, I haven't. This is what it returns: service enable lighttpd : service: service 'enable' does not exist. – lepe May 25 '16 at 0:36
  • That should've been service lighttpd enable; sorry. – Jonathan Y. May 25 '16 at 8:05
  • Tried that too, but it reports: "enable" unknown function. I think is because alpine has no such function. – lepe May 25 '16 at 8:15
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    Ah, yes, sorry, I'm learning this as I go along. So Alpine uses OpenRC instead of systemd. From this cheatsheet that I found, does rc-update add lighttpd default work? – Jonathan Y. May 25 '16 at 8:28
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Alpine Linux uses OpenRC for its init system. The basic commands to interact with it are

rc-update add <service> [runlevel]

adds service to the init sequence (similarly to systemd's systemctl enable <service> in Ubuntu 15.04 and forward);

rc-update del <service> [runlevel]

stops service from starting during system init (similarly to systemd's systemctl disable <service>);

rc-service <service> [start stop restart]

manages currently running services (similarly to systemd's systemctl [start stop restart] <service>, or equivalently /etc/init.d/service [start stop restart] which works in both systemd and OpenRC).

More information can be found on the Alpine Wiki page I linked to above, and a cheatsheet for OpenRC-systemd translation is available here.

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