Wow, > On Dec 14, 2016, at 3:53 PM, Michael Grimm <trash...@ellael.org> wrote: > >> Two questions though: >> >> - I’m confused how you define the shell style $ variables in your individual >> jail settings above, e.g. ‘$ip4_addr_2 = 10.1.1.2;’, why/how does that work? >> Is that a variable to be expanded, or some other behavior? > > This is described in jail.conf(5) under the section "variables". I do have 10 > jails running, and those $ variables/parameters are very helpful, indeed.
I get it, the man page explained it well. > >>> Again, not sure if I do understand your issue correctly, but the shown >>> examples of exec.start, exec.stop, etc. are quite versatile to use. >>> >>> I do start/stop my jails by "service jail start/stop”. >> >> - Obviously you state you’re using service to start/stop jails, but >> shouldn’t this work with ‘jail -c <jailname>’, or are these subsystems not >> interoperable? > > Hmm. I do have to admit that I never tried 'jail -c <jailname>', but I just > gave it a try, and yes, it works as well :-) > > I do use "service jail start/stop" because that will obey my pre-defined > starting/stopping order of jails (which I do need to have, e.g. dns before > mail and such) in /etc/rc.conf > > jail_enable="YES" > jail_reverse_stop="YES" > jail_list="dns mail …” Awesome! For my use, I’m averse to starting jails at host boot- so I’m really excited this works. Thanks so much Michael- this totally answered my question, I’m back on the right path to using jail.conf with my setup! Best, .ike _______________________________________________ freebsd-jail@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-jail-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
