Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:46:58 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Stephen Cook <sclists@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "hosts" file for jails (ezjail) Message-ID: <20140825114658.1ebfaa1c@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <53FA92E1.7000300@gmail.com> References: <53FA92E1.7000300@gmail.com>
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Hi, On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:35:29 -0400 Stephen Cook <sclists@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to get a bunch of jails (I'm using ezjail) to share > the same hosts file, preferably one stored somewhere on the host OS? > I tried putting a symlink in the "flavour" template but when a jail > is created with that the symlink within the jail pointed to itself > and gave me some sort of recursive error when I tried to "cat" it. > > I'd like to be able to update the file when I add a new jail, and > have the others able to connect to it by whatever stupid name I give > it, without editing all those different hosts files. But I suspect > the whole point of jails being kept separate from the host filesystem > might be in my way. > > Any advice is welcome! Thanks! > what you want is against the idea of jails. What you can do, creates in the root filesystem the hosts file and write a script which copies it then into the jails. Erich
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