From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 2 23: 8:49 2001 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 2 23:08:47 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from alex.belpak.by (alex.belpak.by [193.232.248.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77CE37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 23:08:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from belpak.by (alex.belpak.by [193.232.248.13]) by alex.belpak.by (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28205; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:04:49 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from alex@belpak.by) Sender: alexbl@alex.belpak.by Message-ID: <3A52CF10.68DD8BC8@belpak.by> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:04:49 +0200 From: Alex Blagoveschensky Organization: Belpak network. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave VanAuken Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jail revisited References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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