From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 22:00:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC70106566B for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:00:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mpope@teksavvy.com) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D490B8FC12 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 22:00:00 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgQEAD/rqUzO+KvQ/2dsb2JhbAAHlC2MfsdyhUcEkgg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,280,1283745600"; d="scan'208,217";a="78027892" Received: from 206-248-171-208.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO [192.168.111.150]) ([206.248.171.208]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 04 Oct 2010 17:59:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4CAA4E6D.2090302@teksavvy.com> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:00:13 -0400 From: Matthew User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: JAILS in FreeBSD manual - Minor ambiguity between 15.6.1.3 Creating Jails & 15.6.1.4 Upgrading X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:00:02 -0000 Hello, "15.6.1.4 Upgrading" in the FreeBSD manual provides a great step, by step way to safely update jails. I've just installed apache in the host system, and now I wish to propagate it to the system wide jail skeleton, and www jail. But given my limited experience with jails, I am perplexed to read in the 2nd last sentence of this section: "Do not forget to run mergemaster in each jail". The instruction doesn't say between which steps (which one between 1 through 6) to run mergemaster, and I'm left guessing as I'm still coming up to speed on jail configuration and maintenance. Carefully reading *15.6.1.2 "Creating the Template"* it says that mergemaster is run in: Step 4 - Use Mergemaster to install missing configuration files... This follows: Step 1 - Create a read-only directory structure for the read-only file system...(make installworld) Step 2 - Prepare FreeBSD ports collection for the jails... Step 3 - Create a skeleton for the read-write portion... However *15.6.1.4 Upgrading* shares only step 1 (make installworld), but steps 2 through 6 are quite different. I am left wondering between which steps in 15.6.1.4 Upgrading that I am to run mergemaster on each jail. I would be very happy to get a tip. Thank you, Matthew