Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:42:05 -0400 From: Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new jail utility is available. announcement. Message-ID: <20100720134205.3168f4f1@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <4C452644.6060508@comclark.com> References: <4C452644.6060508@comclark.com>
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:29:56 +0800 Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com> articulated: > This is a news announcement to inform people who have interest in jails, > that a new jail utility is available. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjail/ > > Has a file suitable for the pkg_add command or the port make files can > be downloaded and a "make install" run. > > > Qjail [ q = quick ] is a 4th generation wrapper for the basic chroot > jail system that includes security and performance enhancements. Plus a > new level of "user friendliness" enhancements dealing with deploying > just a few jails or large jail environments consisting of 100's of > jails. Qjail requires no knowledge of the jail command usage. > > It uses "nullfs" for read-only system binaries, sharing one copy of > them with all the jails. > > Uses "mdconfig" to create sparse image jails. Sparse image jails > provide a method to limit the total disk space a jail can consume, > while only occupying disk space of the sum size of the files in > the image jail. > > Ability to assign ip address with their network device name, > so aliases are auto created on jail start and auto removed on jail stop. > > Ability to create "ZONE"s of identical qjail systems, each with > their own group of jails. > > Ability to designate a portion of the jail name as a group prefix so > the command being executed will apply to only those jail names > matching that prefix. > > Qjail reduces the complexities of small and large jail deployments to > the novice level. Qjail has a fully documented manpage written for easy > comprehension. Details are given to felicitate the use of qjail's > capabilities to the fullest extent possible. There presently does not exist a port for this, or at least I could not find one. Is someone going to create a port? -- Jerry ✌ FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ Sadoequinecrophilia, n.: Beating a dead horse.
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