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Date:      Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:30:11 +0200
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Marek Rudnicki <marekrud@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-jail@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: combining rc.conf and jail.conf
Message-ID:  <51F1B503.8070904@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <878v0u72ra.fsf@gmail.com>
References:  <878v0u72ra.fsf@gmail.com>

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Marek Rudnicki wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a jail configuration in /etc/jail.conf and can start it with:
>
> # jail -c myjail
>
>
> However, I would like to start it automatically at system boot, e.g. by
> using /etc/rc.conf .  What's the best way to do that?
>
> And generally, is it the recommended way to configure jail in
> /etc/jail.conf and just start them with /etc/rc.conf ?
>
> Cheers
> Marek
>
> PS I'm running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4

You can install sysutils/jail2 - it is new rc script for starting jails 
configured in /etc/jail.conf.
Original /etc/rc.d/jail cannot start jails from jail.conf

Beware of bug in handling of devfs rulesets in FreeBSD 9.1 - see archive 
of this list. (I think it is fixed in stable and 9.2)

Miroslav Lachman



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