started playing with jails

[Bill Moran]

In response to "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd at dfwlp.com>:

> i started playing with jails today, and after following and re-following the man
> page and the freebsddiary article a few times, i finally got it to work!  i have
> one jail that starts on startup, and actually the hump i was getting over was
> getting the jail to actually kick off the sshd daemon.  all that is working, and
> i can reboot my host, and then log into the jail that auto-starts via ssh.
> 
> a couple of general questions that i cannot find the answers to:
> 
> 1) if i want more than one jail, what is the proper syntax in the host's
> /etc/rc.conf file for the jail_list="jailed" statement?  multiple jail_list
> lines, or a single line that specifies more than one jail?
> 2) what happens to a jail when i 'shutdown -p now' on the host?  what caveats do
> i need to watch for when rebooting or shutting down the host?
> 3) i would like to build some ports in my jailed process, but for my
> environment, this requires mounting the export from my main box on my network. 
> so far, i am not able to mount a NFS share to /usr/ports (mount_nfs: /usr/ports:
> Operation not permitted).

If you're shooting purely for usability, I recommend the ezjail port, which
adds some additional admin scripts on top of the stock jail system that
(in my opinion) make things a lot easier.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com