Jail question: packages with relative symlinks

[Valeri Galtsev]

> On Aug 27, 2020, at 9:39 PM, David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-08-27 04:50, Ernie Luzar wrote:
>> snip
>>> 
>>> p.s. Lucas wrote some good books that cover jails:
>>> 
>>> [1] https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#af3e
>>> 
>>> [2] https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmjail
>> The jail book is a waste of your money. Half of it is about a software tool that has nothing to do with native jails. The other half is a copy of stuff you can download from the internet. The biggest problem is none of the things he talks about in the book, did he test to see if they are true. I was fooled by the subject not by the content. It's not worth what you pay for it. It's a scam.
> 
> When learning a non-trivial subject, RTFM and STFW can require a lot of effort -- especially the latter, as the WWW is full of incomplete, obsolete, and contradictory information.
> 
> 
> I am willing to pay a reasonable price for a printed book that contains current information, organizes it, and presents it in a rational order. Lucas writes such books, and I own eleven of them.
> 
> 
> I do not recall ever encountering an error when entering an example from a Lucas book.  (But, I have not entered every command from every book.)
> 
> 
> When I wanted jails for my SOHO server, I read Lucas and choose the jail(8) option.  My server is running 24x7 without issues.
> 

When I said in my OP "I set up jails by the book" I meant FreeBSD Handbook, not any of printed books.

Thanks a lot, everyone who replied with your suggestions!

Valeri

> 
> I believe I attempted ezjail for a second server, but ran into problems with the software not being unsupported on 12.1-RELEASE (?).
> 
> 
> I have not tried iocage.
> 
> 
> David
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