Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:03:45 +0800 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: handbook chapter 14. Jails is out of date Message-ID: <58803AA1.4070603@gmail.com>
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Was reading the handbook chapter 14 about jails. Found it very strange that it's based on the legacy rc.conf method. When you start a jail using that method a warning message is given saying the statements are being converted to jail.conf statements and that the user should migrate their jail definitions to the jail.conf format. I believe this happened with RELEASE 10.0. Here RELEASE 11.0 is out and all releases older than 10.3 are at "end of life" and still the handbook has not been updated to document the current jail.conf method. The rc.conf method is depreciated and may soon be up for removal from the base system. Enough time has elapsed already for user conversions that the rc.conf method documented in the handbook can be removed and replaced with jail.conf documentation without concern for backwards capability. Omitted from the jail chapter is information about how to drive public traffic to the desired target jail. The section on ezjail is inappropriate in the handbook. It's not proper to give a port utility such lengthly coverage. All that information should be covered in the ezjail man page manual or it's website. The ezjail section should be removed from the handbook. Listing ezjail as a utility for jail administration is ok only if the other jail utilities are also included in the listing. Can not be showing such personal bias in the public manual. I hope someone will work on this to make it happen. Ya I know, patches are welcome.
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