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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:46:50 -0400 (AST)
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To: Dave Kingsley <kingsled@enc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Jail Replication
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Dave Kingsley wrote:

> Good Afternoon!
>     We have been trying to set up a system of jails on FreeBSD 5.0 machines.
>
> Building a jail from scratch seems to be no problem.  Everything seems
> to work
>
> just fine.  Here is our problem.  We would like to be able to replicate
> jails
>
> quickly, both on the original host machine and on others as well.
>
>     Creating a tar-ball, untarring in the new location, making necessary
> tweaks,
>
> seemed to work OK at first.  But we can't reset passwords, etc. out side of
>
> sysinstall!?  What are we doing wrong?  What are we missing?

Good question, we do this on a near daily basis without any problems ...
we use 'tar cvzpf' to create the archive (and xvzpf to extract) te
archives, to ensure that permissions are maintained ... but that's it ...


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