From: Ian Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:55:06 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: better docs
X-Git-Url: https://iankelling.org/git/?p=newns;a=commitdiff_plain;h=fedb02a73e1171c91cca9bc91bc357b1db8477ec

better docs
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diff --git a/newns b/newns
index 6da7727..a2233fb 100755
--- a/newns
+++ b/newns
@@ -71,7 +71,15 @@ https://iankelling.org/git/?p=errhandle, set ERRHANDLE_PATH, or put it
 in a directory adjacent to the absolute, resolved directory this file is
 in.
 
-Background: "ip netns new ..." also does a mount namespace, then bind
+Background:
+
+This script does not make the namespace be named like ip does, because
+the naming is not necessary, although it could have with some more
+work. For debugging and joining the namespace with a bash shell, I use
+nsenter -n -m -t $(pgrep PROCESS_IN_NAMESPACE).  Note: if I knew how to
+easily ask systemd what pid a unit has, i would do that.
+
+"ip netns new ..." also does a mount namespace, then bind
 mounts each file/dir in /etc/netns/NS_NAME to /etc/NS_NAME. Note,
 for openvpn having it's own resolv.conf by using it's user script which
 calls resolvconf, this doesn't help much. What we actually want to do is