Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:23:11 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Future of jail(8) [WAS: preferred jail management tool] Message-ID: <1422379391.4042797.219588169.1818EA41@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <54C7C828.4070703@erdgeist.org> References: <CACfj5vKjiQHsy9VbOKFFcrBpyr3dmbkOOxTxCYhSyZrnrjRiaQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAHieY7TyxzC0aK-ErY2EbCmTJPykk_9G7Gd=CrZ9yxQ-77PynA@mail.gmail.com> <20150127012347.GA4940@lonesome.com> <20150127141239.V77290@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <54C7958B.40007@gmail.com> <54C7C828.4070703@erdgeist.org>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 11:17, Dirk Engling wrote: > On 27.01.15 14:41, Ernie Luzar wrote: > > > I hope the ezjail author takes this thread as incentive to keep his > > utility up to date and not let it die due to changing software in Freebsd > > base code. All I am doing is pointing out the facts here. > > I am reading the thread. And I have been following the discussion for a > long time. > > I have been served the jail.conf file format and offered my help > improving the jail(8) tool to allow for manipulation of the jail.conf, > because ezjail as a shell tool can not parse the format and keeping a > shadow config with potentially conflicting information is not a stable > way to maintain ones config > > A short summary is here: > > https://elektropost.org/ezjail/msg00149.html > > I also heard rumors that the jail.conf format is an intermediate format > only, and/or there's gonna be a library to parse and manipulate all kind > of structured config in FreeBSD. > > So I'd be very interested in keeping up with the base system's > development, but regarding jail configs it looks like I'm stuck with the > "use your vi to configure your jails" approach for 3 years now. > > Is there anyone feeling responsible for the jail(8) tool at the moment > willing to accept patches and discuss development? > This makes sense to be broken out into its own thread. And I agree -- patches to jail(8) or a tool like sysrc(8) for editing jail.conf would be a great way to allow third party tools to manage jail.conf cleanly and effectively.
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