docs/87351: Jail building instructions don't work as described with default CSH shell

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Mon Oct 24 17:40:55 UTC 2005


On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:10:20AM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/87351; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
> To: "Eli K. Breen" <bsd at unixforge.net>
> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: docs/87351: Jail building instructions don't work as described with default CSH shell
> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:32:32 +0300
> 
>  On 2005-10-13 00:05, "Eli K. Breen" <bsd at unixforge.net> wrote:
>  > Building jails does not work as perscribed in the man (8) jail
>  > docs. The default shell for root on a new and stock FreeBSD box is
>  > csh, the instruction include the line:
>  >
>  > D=/path/to/your/jail
>  >
>  > ..which does not work under csh, this returns a Command Not Found error.
>  
>  > switch to csh, try to build a jail using the supplied instructions
>  > from the jail(8) manpage.
>  
>  > user at box# csh
>  > user at box# D=/path/to/your/jail
>  > D=/path/to/your/jail: Command not found.
>  > user at box#
>  
>  > jail manpage currently reads:
>  >
>  >      D=/here/is/the/jail
>  >      cd /usr/src
>  >      mkdir -p $D
>  >      make world DESTDIR=$D
>  >      cd etc
>  >      make distribution DESTDIR=$D
>  >      mount_devfs devfs $D/dev
>  >      cd $D
>  >      ln -sf dev/null kernel
>  >
>  > ..and should read:
>  >
>  >      set D=/here/is/the/jail
>  >      cd /usr/src
>  >      mkdir -p $D
>  >      make world DESTDIR=$D
>  >      cd etc
>  >      make distribution DESTDIR=$D
>  >      mount_devfs devfs $D/dev
>  >      cd $D
>  >      ln -sf dev/null kernel
>  >
>  > .. or specify that the instructions do not work under csh.
>  
>  I'd certainly support adding a note that these commands work fine fror
>  sh(1) and other Bourne shells.  Then we can probably add another set of
>  commands for csh, if that seems nice to have.

Shell examples are traditionally in sh.  I'd really rather not see use
bloat every instance of them with a csh example.  Users can always type
"sh".

-- Brooks

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