From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 00:20:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2751416A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:20:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08BFB43D41 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:20:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C17037A4FE; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:20:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40F5CDCC.8050209@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:20:28 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn References: <26075.1089753893@critter.freebsd.dk> <200407141441.23158.kirk@strauser.com> <200407141704.07142.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Kirk Strauser cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:20:29 -0000 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > You might want to build a jail, for instance, which *looks* > like it is FreeBSD 3.x to the user, even though your machine > is really running the kernel from FreeBSD 4.10. This is very > useful for some kinds of testing, for instance. (although for > testing, this is usually done as a plain 'chroot' environment, > and not a full-blown jail...). I have a jail of FreeBSD 1.1 you need one change in teh kernel to make it work properly (1.1 can't cope with PIDs being > 65535 as they now are) and a new copy of ps and netstat (and the other usual suspects) are required. but "make buildworld" REALLY flies :-)