Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 21:59:59 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Jail question: packages with relative symlinks Message-ID: <14E42F3C-F840-40D1-8887-57519E3D1AF4@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <e7450d1e-1b3a-35e0-a496-ebae0618a09e@holgerdanske.com> References: <f3636f36-b6ce-3e8a-878a-bf8d5f75144d@kicp.uchicago.edu> <24d244da-43e4-9a5e-e940-3f183bc5a50e@holgerdanske.com> <5F479E04.1010605@gmail.com> <e7450d1e-1b3a-35e0-a496-ebae0618a09e@holgerdanske.com>
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> On Aug 27, 2020, at 9:39 PM, David Christensen = <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote: >=20 > On 2020-08-27 04:50, Ernie Luzar wrote: >> snip >>>=20 >>> p.s. Lucas wrote some good books that cover jails: >>>=20 >>> [1] https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#af3e >>>=20 >>> [2] https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmjail >> The jail book is a waste of your money. Half of it is about a = software tool that has nothing to do with native jails. The other half = is a copy of stuff you can download from the internet. The biggest = problem is none of the things he talks about in the book, did he test to = see if they are true. I was fooled by the subject not by the content. = It's not worth what you pay for it. It's a scam. >=20 > When learning a non-trivial subject, RTFM and STFW can require a lot = of effort -- especially the latter, as the WWW is full of incomplete, = obsolete, and contradictory information. >=20 >=20 > I am willing to pay a reasonable price for a printed book that = contains current information, organizes it, and presents it in a = rational order. Lucas writes such books, and I own eleven of them. >=20 >=20 > I do not recall ever encountering an error when entering an example = from a Lucas book. (But, I have not entered every command from every = book.) >=20 >=20 > When I wanted jails for my SOHO server, I read Lucas and choose the = jail(8) option. My server is running 24x7 without issues. >=20 When I said in my OP "I set up jails by the book" I meant FreeBSD = Handbook, not any of printed books. Thanks a lot, everyone who replied with your suggestions! Valeri >=20 > I believe I attempted ezjail for a second server, but ran into = problems with the software not being unsupported on 12.1-RELEASE (?). >=20 >=20 > I have not tried iocage. >=20 >=20 > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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