Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:02:26 -0800 From: "Kurt Buff" <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: "Jon Passki" <jon.passki@hursk.com> Cc: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newb alert... Message-ID: <a9f4a3860801301802m5d3ca62l3aaa510a6097c708@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cc6847e40801301338h1d021399j8e1bb3b1475ea5fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <a9f4a3860801301248s46f15254r8676478b8c0fc9dd@mail.gmail.com> <cc6847e40801301338h1d021399j8e1bb3b1475ea5fb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 30, 2008 1:38 PM, Jon Passki <jon.passki@hursk.com> wrote: > On 1/30/08, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: > > All, > > > > I'm trying to set up my first jail, and have been following the > > handbook, Chapter 15, and a printout of 'man 8 jail' from the > > freebsd.org web site. > > > > I've followed the steps in the handbook through 15.4 (the 'make > > distribution' step got an error, which I ignored after reading the > > notes) up to the point where I entered the following in my > > /etc/rc.conf. > > If possible, can you post all of the steps? # mkdir -p /jails/wotan # setenv D /jails/wotan # cd /usr/src # makeworld DESTDIR=$D && make distribution DESTDIR=$D && mount_devfs devfs $D $D/dev I then edited /etc/rc.conf to include the lines below. > > jail_enable="YES" > > jail_list="wotan" > > jail_wotan_rootdir="/jails/wotan" > > jail_wotan_hostname="wotan.mycompany.com" > > jail_wotan_ip="192.168.24.123" > > jail_wotan_devfs_enable="YES" > > jail_wotan_devfs_ruleset="wotan_ruleset" > > > > I then did /etc/rc.d/jail /start wotan > > `/etc/rc.d/jail start wotan` # notice no forward slash in front of 'start' Yes - that's a typo on my part - I did actually omit the slash at the command line. > Also, I don't see a "jail_exec_start" statement nor a > "jail_wotan_exec_start" statement anywhere. This could easily cause > problems. You should have something like: > > jail_wotan_exec_start="/bin/sh /etc/rc" # command to > execute in jail for starting > jail_wotan_exec_stop="/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown" # command to > execute in jail for stopping > > Somewhere. If you remove the "wotan" from the above, then that will > be the default setting. Good to know. I'm assuming that they can be put in with the rest of the lines in /etc/rc.conf? > > > > and that didn't work, giving the following lines: > > > > Starting jails: cannot start jail "wotan": > > jail: getpwnam: root: no such file or directory > > Does /jails/wotan/etc/passwd, /jails/wotan/etc/master.passwd, > /jails/wotan/etc/pwd.db, and /jails/wotan/etc/spwd.db exist? No, I'm afraid not. > > I googled a bit, but only find a reference to this on the -current > > list, regarding ZFS, which I'm not using. > > Red herring, methinks. > > Jon >
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