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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
To: Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:06:05 -0600
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Subject: Re: A jail?
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On Thursday 08 January 2004 06:13 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote:
> While installing postgres I get the following:
>
>
> You need to create the null device in your jailed Linux environment. Run
> this
> outside the jail, then press enter:
>
> mkdir -m 0755 -p <Jail root dir>/dev
> rm -f <Jail root dir>//compat/linux/dev/null
> mknod <Jail root dir>//compat/linux/dev/null c 2 2
> chmod 666 <Jail root dir>//compat/linux/dev/null
>
>
> Do I HAVE to make a jail? I was just going to run the postgresql port on
> my FreeBSD box, sans-condom.  The box only has one user and there are no
> security concerns to speak of.
>
> -R

PostgreSQL is available via the FreeBSD ports system.  It does not require a 
jail or linux emulation.

What are you trying to do?

Andrew Gould