New jail(8) committed

[Devin Teske]

On Apr 28, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Jamie Gritton wrote:

> The main reason I didn't consider a jail.d approach is just that I
> haven't - such things are a little off the radar for me. It seemed very
> natural to use a configuration file format that other programs already
> use (e.g. named, apmd, devd). I suppose it's true that the "foo.d"
> approach is also in use by other programs, though I mostly seem to see
> those on Linux. And if I did opt for a directory approach, the files
> within the directory would still need a format - you can't get away from
> the fact that a config file needs a format.
> 
> It would be nice to have a general parser for C-style config files, and
> I looked for such a library when I started on this. But such a library
> doesn't seem to exist.Perhaps it's time to make one.
> 

The config file format that you've chosen is remarkably identical to config files for which I've already written parsers.

So, I guess I'm saying that I'm willing to help out in this area.

My parser is written in C, it's very small and light-weight, and it's called figpar (con[fig par]ser).

I can dust if off, slap a BSD license on it, wrap a utility around it and we could have something like sysrc (which operates on the collection of rc.conf(5) files).

Alternatively, I could rewrite it in something like sh(1) if C is not desired.
-- 
Devin




> On 04/27/12 22:14, Dirk Engling wrote:
>> On 26.04.12 22:07, Jamie Gritton wrote:
>> 
>>> I've finally put my jail(8) changes into HEAD.  This new version of jail
>>> can create jails from a configuration file - see jail.conf(5) for the
>>> format, as well as some additions to jail(8).  This doesn't mean you
>>> *have* to use jail.conf, but it's a better way to manage jails than the
>>> existing rc.conf method.
>> 
>> Out of curiosity, why did you settle for a /etc/jail.conf instead of a
>> /etc/jail.d/? Your config file format introduces the dependency into an
>> expensive parser while adding little value. Even worse, the user now has
>> to struggle with just another format describing the system.
>> 
>> I can foresee that my automated jail management tool ezjail will not be
>> able to support the jail.conf format due to the lack of a parser. A look
>> into ezjails config directory structure can give you a hint of how to
>> achieve some similar clean up with built in tools.
>> 
>> I am not saying, the config directory format is perfect, the current
>> redundancy in jail_JAILNAME variables is a mess, but inventing a
>> container format where files would do just fine in my opinion is overkill.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>>   erdgeist
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