Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Dave wrote:
> For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how "Exactly" to create 
> and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD V8.x

Did you start with the Handbook?

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-build.html

You might also consider sysutils/ezjail; see:

  http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail

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> I have (aledgedly) downloaded the Sys sources, and Ports.   At least it 
> sat there for ages after fumbling arround the sysinstall menu system 
> (whoever designed that should be forced to use it!  It's behaviour is 
> apalling, flitting from one context to another with no warning, in a way 
> such that you can't see what you've selected, without affecting the 
> selection, or something else..)
> 
> Anyway, trying to follow various instructions I found, and those pointed 
> out to me by other helpful souls here (thanks Kaya and Peter.)  But 
> Whatever I do, I get a "Don't know how to build world. Stop" error.
> 
> I am logged in as root, and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports 
> sources..   How do I confirm that, are there trace logs kept somewhere?

   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html
   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck