Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:04:49 +0200 From: Alex Blagoveschensky <alex@belpak.by> To: Dave VanAuken <dave@hawk-systems.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jail revisited Message-ID: <3A52CF10.68DD8BC8@belpak.by> References: <DBEIKNMKGOBGNDHAAKGNOEBJCLAA.dave@hawk-systems.com>
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hello Dave VanAuken wrote: > okay, jail is up, running, and functional thanks to the assistance > found here. > > still playing around with some aspects. for example: > > Problem 1: Wish to give jail owner the ability to install ports (or > try to) as they see fit, essentially to configure the virtual machine. > I do not want to make duplicate copies of the entire ports directory > but from what I can delve from the documentation, jail will not allow > a link to the ports directory (outside the jail, and thus for obvious > reasons). > > simple solution would be to provide ftp access on the host machine to > the directory containing the ports... if there a more eloquent > solution? > I use mount_union(8) for create skel. for example: mount -t union -o ro /usr/ports /path/to/jail/usr/ports and then I start jail. But you should remember that: THIS FILESYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET. bye -- Belpak Network http://alex.belpak.by To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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