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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/jail')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/jail/jail.8 | 18 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8 b/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8 index bcd12c4..6e159a1 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8 @@ -73,13 +73,18 @@ Pathname of the program which is to be executed. .Pp Jails are typically set up using one of two philosophies: either to constrain a specific application (possibly running with privilege), or -to create a "virtual system image" running a variety of daemons and -services. -In both cases, a fairly complete file system install of FreeBSD is +to create a +.Dq "virtual system image" +running a variety of daemons and services. +In both cases, a fairly complete file system install of +.Fx +is required, so as to provide the necessary command line tools, daemons, libraries, application configuration files, etc. However, for a virtual server configuration, a fair amount of -additional work is required so as to configure the "boot" process. +additional work is required so as to configure the +.Dq boot +process. This manual page documents the configuration steps necessary to support either of these steps, although the configuration steps may be refined based on local requirements. @@ -217,9 +222,8 @@ these daemons have been disabled or fixed in the host environment, it is best to reboot so that all daemons are in a known state, to reduce the potential for confusion later (such as finding that when you send mail to a jail, and its sendmail is down, the mail is delivered to the host, -etc.) -.Ss Configuring the Jail -.Pp +etc.). +.Ss "Configuring the Jail" Start any jail for the first time without configuring the network interface so that you can clean it up a little and set up accounts. As |