FBSD jail versus VMWare? What services do YOU run in a jail?

[dteske at FreeBSD.org]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dteske at FreeBSD.org [mailto:dteske at FreeBSD.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 8:07 AM
> To: 'Peter Boosten'; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: FBSD jail versus VMWare? What services do YOU run in a jail?
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Boosten [mailto:peter at boosten.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:11 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: FBSD jail versus VMWare? What services do YOU run in a
jail?
> >
> > On 24-4-2014 9:02, Eduardo Morras wrote:
> > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:47:45 -0700
> > > "edflecko ." <edflecko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> What type of services CAN be run from within a jail?
> > >
> > > I tried to run PostgreSQL8.4 (IIRC) in a jail under FreeBSD8.2.
> > > There
> were a
> > lot of problems with SysV signals and semaphores (IIRC) and had to
> > install
> it
> > in host. Don't know if it's actually relevant.
> > >
> >
> > PostgreSQL (now 9.1) runs fine in a jail.
> >
> 
> Under FreeBSD-8, I'm battling this very problem.
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11909993/freebsd-jail-can-not-set-
> securit
> y-jail-sysvipc-allowed
> 
> The article linked-to by the above stackoverflow question:
> http://www.freebsddiary.org/jail-multiple.php
> 
> Of course, my situation is slightly different in that I'm using a vnet
jail, (aka a
> vimage) not just a normal jail.
> 
> I'm finding that the sysvipc_allowed option is not being inherited by vnet
> jails. My first inclination (since this is for
> $work) is to just go in and change the default (did something similar for
> enforce_statfs -- changing default to 1).
> 
> Not sure why a vnet jail isn't inheriting the option where the parent
whereas
> a normal jail does. That may not pertain to your situation (haven't read
the
> whole thread yet), but that seems to be the case for us (and it's not the
boot
> script either, because I can see that the knob is twiddled to 1 before
creating
> the vnet jails yet the knob remains zero inside the jail afterward).
> 
> Again, this is on 8.x.

Found the solution to my problem here:
https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=42041

Affects some 9.x users too.
-- 
Devin

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