cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/jail jail.8

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Mike Makonnen wrote:

> >   When pointing users at mount_devfs to populate the /dev of a jail,
> >   tell them that they also need to use devfs rules to prevent
> >   inappropriate devices from appearing in the jail; add an Xref.  In
> >   earlier versions of this man page, the user was instructed to use
> >   sh MAKEDEV jail, which only created a minimal set of device nodes.
> 
> Just an FYI, I'm working on an rc.subr(8) routine (part of an extention
> to rc.d/jail I'm working on) that will mount and minimally populate a
> devfs partition. Users can then rely on a "standard" and safe way of
> doing this kind of thing. 

Ah, wonderful!  That is indeed just what we need.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories