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On 21/12/2010 12:23, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, krad<kraduk@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> i'd stay away from characters like that. It should be ok in theory to use
>> but in my experience it is more likely to cause problems in the future
>>
>
> There's no problem of having a dash in a hostname, so why should it be
> in a jailname?

Well, the immediate reason here is this:

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Definitions

"""
name
     A word consisting solely of letters, numbers, and underscores, and 
beginning with a letter or underscore. Names are used as shell variable 
and function names. Also referred to as an identifier.
"""

(ignoring that /bin/sh is not bash but the syntax is the same for this 
purpose).

/etc/rc.conf is basically a shell script containing only variable 
assignments.

I think you actually *could* have jails with arbitrary names (including 
international / utf-8 if you're not worried about formatting much) but 
only if you are going to manage them manually, not with /etc/rc.conf.