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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:30:17 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, freebsd-jail@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting the jail identifier from /etc/rc.conf
Message-ID:  <20091021222851.O91695@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091021222054.GJ1293@hoeg.nl>
References:  <20091021222054.GJ1293@hoeg.nl>

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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Ed Schouten wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I haven't played with Jails for a long time, but I wanted to figure out
> how hard it is to make init spawn getties for certain jails. It
> shouldn't be too hard (jexec foo /usr/libexec/getty), but I can't seem
> to find a way to set the jid to a certain value from within rc.conf.
>
> It also seems jids cannot contain dots, which means I cannot set the jid
> equal to the hostname of the jail.
>
> Maybe a Jail hacker can give me some advice here? Wouldn't it be more
> sane if the kernel just used the hostname as an identifier if there is
> no jail with the same hostname yet? Or maybe we should at least provide
> a config tunable for this?

Redirect to freebsd-jail@  ; you may even find the answers to those
int he mail archive (unless those had been private threads I was on
Cc: on;-)


-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb         It will not break if you know what you are doing.



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