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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:28:57 +0100
From:      "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse+freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rc.shutdown and jails
Message-ID:  <20041211082857.GA5218@engelschall.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041210234157.478BF840325@mail.npubs.com>
References:  <20041210180332.GA27788@engelschall.com> <20041210234157.478BF840325@mail.npubs.com>

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On Fri, Dec 10, 2004, Nielsen wrote:

> Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> >Currently a "/etc/rc.d/jail stop" just kills all processes in the
> >individual jails. If /etc/default/rc.conf's default way of booting the
> >jails (jail_exec="/bin/sh /etc/rc") is used this is a rather crual
> >approach IMHO. I think if the jail is booted through /etc/rc it also
> >should be given the chance to shutdown via /etc/rc.shutdown. If then
> >there are still processes remaining, the killall(1) is fine, of course.
> >This way packages and other sub-systems have the chance to perform a
> >graceful shutdown.
>
> Definitely a good plan. You just have to watch out for environment
> variable leakage into the jail subsystem when using jexec. A minor
> concern, perhaps.
> [...]

Ok, good point. I think running "env -i /usr/sbin/jexec" instead of
just "jexec" is sufficient here because the rc.shutdown reinitializes
at least PATH and HOME again and the remaining variables should be not
needed for the procedure.

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rse@FreeBSD.org                        Ralf S. Engelschall
FreeBSD.org/~rse                       rse@engelschall.com
FreeBSD committer                      www.engelschall.com



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