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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 2010 16:55:22 +0300
From:      "Alexey V. Degtyarev" <alexey@renatasystems.org>
To:        Panagiotis Christias <christias@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-jail@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How could a jail learn which is its parent host?
Message-ID:  <20100302135521.GF23214@hs-4.renatasystems.org>
In-Reply-To: <e4b0ecef1003020037v79d0c334sedc65ffae094e29a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <e4b0ecef1003020037v79d0c334sedc65ffae094e29a@mail.gmail.com>

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On 10:37 Tue 02 Mar, Panagiotis Christias wrote:

> I am looking for a simple way so each jail could know at any time in
> which (physical) server is hosted. Any suggestions?

You may push a kernel environment on physical server so it will be
available from within jail. To achieve it, on the mainhost (physical
server) add to /boot/loader.conf:

x.mainhost="physical.example.com"

after reboot the mainhost server, you can use x.mainhost env from within
jail (and mainhost as well):

[root@jail1 ~]# kenv x.mainhost
physical.example.com

Check kenv(1) and loader.conf(5) for details.

-- 
Alexey V. Degtyarev



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