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From: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org>
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Subject: Re: Jail not starting
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:12:18AM -0500, freebsd@vfemail.net wrote:
> Dear all
> 
> I have set up a Jail environment exactly the way suggested by the man page. 
> Now, even though I have jails_enable="YES" in my host rc.conf, and the 
> parameters are defined, it does not start on boot time. Also, if I try to 
> start it using the rc script like /etc/rc.d/jail start <myJail>, it says 
> configuring jail: and then Starting Jail: and simply sits there.
> 
> to test it, I have run it manually, like
> jail /Path/To/Jail <hostname> <IP> /bin/sh /etc/rc
> 
> and it ran properly -- like the services I want to offer from within the 
> jails started (those are not even configured in host, so it has to be the 
> jail), they are serving, but still there is no jail pid in /var/run, no 
> process called jail, and I'm at a loss.
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 6.2 stable updated last week and rebuilt (both host 
> and jail).
> 
> Any suggestion, further diagnosis or request for further info is highly 
> appreciated.

Without knowing what services you have starting in your jail it's hard
to tell what's causing the delay.  Try hitting ^T to see exactly what's
going on while you are waiting.

-- WXS