Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:13:18 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org>, freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: preferred jail management tool Message-ID: <1422378798.471657.219584245.23835460@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <54C7C4C4.60908@erdgeist.org> References: <CACfj5vKjiQHsy9VbOKFFcrBpyr3dmbkOOxTxCYhSyZrnrjRiaQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAHieY7TyxzC0aK-ErY2EbCmTJPykk_9G7Gd=CrZ9yxQ-77PynA@mail.gmail.com> <20150127012347.GA4940@lonesome.com> <20150127141239.V77290@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <54C7958B.40007@gmail.com> <CAHieY7TWDRjE5hWoo1-oQRKHKvxEDbKYO4RHP20F=gCcbNH3DA@mail.gmail.com> <1422377865.3055728.219576589.684C5A1B@webmail.messagingengine.com> <54C7C4C4.60908@erdgeist.org>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 11:03, Dirk Engling wrote: > On 27.01.15 17:57, Mark Felder wrote: > > > I'll admit that last time I used ezjail I found it frustratingly > > difficult to locate concise documentation on exactly how flavours > > worked, and how to use scripts to do things to the new jails as well as > > copying in the files I wanted. Maybe I just didn't look hard enough, > > though. > > Well, I built flavours as stupidly simply as it gets: all it does is to > copy files and some of them happen to be located in /etc/rc.d, being > executed at the first start up. If you would have taken a single look > into the example flavour, you should have noticed. > > Even in the old docs this was pointed out, the overhauled man pages do > that even more precisely. > Eventually I figured out I could just mirror hier(7) in the flavour and it would copy files in, but I swear there were references to people getting the flavour to run custom shell scripts during the creation of the jail but I couldn't find good examples of that. Again, this was a couple years ago. I don't have recent experience or memories of this exact problem.
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