Future of jail(8) [WAS: preferred jail management tool]

[Mark Felder]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 11:17, Dirk Engling wrote:
> On 27.01.15 14:41, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> 
> > I hope the ezjail author takes this thread as incentive to keep his
> > utility up to date and not let it die due to changing software in Freebsd
> > base code. All I am doing is pointing out the facts here.
> 
> I am reading the thread. And I have been following the discussion for a
> long time.
> 
> I have been served the jail.conf file format and offered my help
> improving the jail(8) tool to allow for manipulation of the jail.conf,
> because ezjail as a shell tool can not parse the format and keeping a
> shadow config with potentially conflicting information is not a stable
> way to maintain ones config
> 
> A short summary is here:
> 
> https://elektropost.org/ezjail/msg00149.html
> 
> I also heard rumors that the jail.conf format is an intermediate format
> only, and/or there's gonna be a library to parse and manipulate all kind
> of structured config in FreeBSD.
> 
> So I'd be very interested in keeping up with the base system's
> development, but regarding jail configs it looks like I'm stuck with the
> "use your vi to configure your jails" approach for 3 years now.
> 
> Is there anyone feeling responsible for the jail(8) tool at the moment
> willing to accept patches and discuss development?
> 

This makes sense to be broken out into its own thread. And I agree --
patches to jail(8) or a tool like sysrc(8) for editing jail.conf would
be a great way to allow third party tools to manage jail.conf cleanly
and effectively.