Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:57:51 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: phantomcircuit <phantomcircuit@covertinferno.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best way to install/update software and firewall choice Message-ID: <ade45ae90910310857w6d0a7bb3x5ae63be461c59d9e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AEC2B73.3020505@covertinferno.org> References: <4AEC1729.6000307@posteurs.com> <4AEC28B1.5050103@otenet.gr> <4AEC2B73.3020505@covertinferno.org>
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On 10/31/09, phantomcircuit <phantomcircuit@covertinferno.org> wrote: > freebsd-update works fine in a jail so long as you symlink the kernel > file to /dev/null I've never needed to do that. I run lots of jails and i just run freebsd-update like normal. I don't install the kern sets in the jails though, just base. cat base.?? | tar -xzf - -C /jails/jail0.sample ## setup /etc/resolv.conf in the jail ## run freebsd-update from within the jail ## it patches and runs fine. ## this is not the documented way to do it, but I haven't yet had problems with it. ## world for the jails will take about 128MB of disk space, any services you add are on top of that.
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