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Subject: Re: init(8) in jails
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Currently, the preferred mechanism to set up a virtual server in a
> jail is 'jail /path/to/jail jail.host.name 1.2.3.4 /etc/rc'.
> 
> How about modifying init instead and teach it how to run a jail?  The
> advantages of that approach would include the ability to send a signal
> to a jailed init to have it run /etc/rc.shutdown inside the jail and
> terminate the jail cleanly; currently, there is no clean method of
> terminating a jail.

This seems to be similar to the jailer command developed by Nate Nielsen.

http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/freebsd/jails/jailer/
or sysutils/jailer

Andrew