Thoughts on jail.config

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Tue Jun 29 10:25:08 UTC 2010


On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Jamie Gritton wrote:

Hi,

> On 06/28/10 08:41, Rodrigo Mosconi wrote:
>
>> An idea: if it works like a "jaild"? A daemon management the start-up,
>> shutdown, console redirection?  All the admins task could be done by a
>> "jailctl"?
>
> I don't know what work a daemon would have to do. I only see it running
> tasks on startup, and then waiting until something tells it on shutdown
> to wake up and stop the jails. That "something" would have to be that
> jailctl you mention. If there's a jail program running anyway, might as
> well keep all functionality in that one program.


One functionality I forgot about but was asked for in the past was
"jail reboot"  so that an admin could "restart" a jail completly from
within the jail.  The question is whether we may want a "jailinit" (an
init running inside the jail) for that or if we want to handle it from
the outside.

/bz

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