$ sudo -H vserver blah enter Password: vnamespace: vc_xidopt2xid("/etc/vservers/blah"): No such file or directory (no, blah is not the real name) ... but the directory is there: $ ls -la /etc/vservers/blah total 9 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 272 2007-02-26 23:22 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 576 2007-06-18 22:13 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 2007-02-16 23:09 apps lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2007-02-16 23:09 cache -> /etc/vservers/.defaults/cachebase/blah drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2007-02-16 23:09 cpuset -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72 2007-02-26 23:22 fstab drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2007-02-16 23:09 interfaces -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 2007-02-16 23:09 name lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2007-02-16 23:09 run -> /var/run/vservers/blah drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 2007-02-16 23:09 uts lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2007-02-16 23:09 vdir -> /etc/vservers/.defaults/vdirbase/blah