Building a Jail in FreeBSD or NetBSD for a hosting environment

[Nick Larsen]

Cool,

Thanks people for your help.
That documentation that *Pavel Duda* sent me seems excellant, I had a quick
read last night and it's making sense.
I'll give it another go in FreeBSD (just don't wanna blitz my NetBSD machine
just yet, but I have a bunch of old machines lol)

Thanks again.

On 3/1/06, Pavel Duda <element at email.cz> wrote:
>
> Nick Larsen wrote:
> > Hey Members,
> >
> > I have done a little research on Jails and setting them up, and managed
> to
> > get one going at one stage and managed to somehow destroy it.
> > I'm new to Jails, and I would like to use a real jail then just using a
> > chroot jail.
> >
> > Where I work, we use the Ensim software for hosting, and I find that
> very
> > pricey and sluggish (and it runs on Fedora rather than Linux).
> > They use a technique of chrooting sites and the sites users into an
> > environment in /home/virtual/sitexxx/ I would like to be able to do the
> same
> > (but with Jail), but not quite sure how to go about it. Last time I
> tried to
> > `make world DESTDIR=/my/jail/path` it failed (cannot remember the
> details
> > right now) but it this where I start?
> >
> > Also do I need an individual IP for each jail? because each physical
> server
> > will have 1 IP unless the customer requests a dedicated IP.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated, and I have tried to research it but end
> up
> > going round in circles.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Nick Larsen
> > Wellington
> > NEW ZEALAND
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Regards,

Nick Larsen
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND