Problem starting jail

Harald Schmalzbauer h at schmalzbauer.de
Sat Apr 24 14:41:06 PDT 2004


Am Samstag, 24. April 2004 06:18 schrieb Gerald Holguin:
> Hello,
> I am running FreeBSD 4.9.
>
> I am new to Unix (great learning).
>
> I have setup the jail according to the man page with no errors and upon
> completion while trying to start the jail I get this error:
>
> bsdbox# jail -u root /home/jail/192.168.10.3/ ecj 192.168.10.3 /bin/sh
> jail: execv: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
>
> I have also tried to start the box with the following invocation:
> bsdbox# jail /home/jail/192.168.10.3/ ecj 192.168.10.3 /bin/sh and I get
> the same error:
> "jail: execv: /bin/sh: No such file or directory"
>
> The /bin/sh file does in fact exist under the host environment.

You need /bin/sh in the jail environment! It's the first process which gets 
started in the jail.

-Harry


>
> Anyone have some advice?
>
> Gerald
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