Comments on: Setup FreeBSD Jail With ezjail

By: Karl Blessing

Karl Blessing — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:58:38 +0000

I just went with pulling down the source tree, doing buildworld (But not installworld). Was just hoping there’d be a way to update the jails without having to rely on sources.

By: Karl Blessing

Karl Blessing — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:56:14 +0000

Would it be possible to install a jail on a binary distribution. If I don’t have a source tree and I don’t wish to re-build the base system from cvsup but rather keep it easy with freebsd-update?

By: Broy

Broy — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:08:39 +0000

Hello!
I set up Ezjail in my FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 release-version. After successful installation,
i did the ” ezjail-admin update -p -i ” command but unfortunately it shows some errors:
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cd /usr/src; make -f Makefile.inc1 hierarchy
cd /usr/src/etc; make distrib-dirs
cd: can’t cd to /usr/src/etc
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/src.
Error: The command ‘make installworld’ failed.
Refer to the error report(s) above.
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BTW, i recompiled and build my own kernel first before i install Ezjail. I’m suspecting why does error occurred its because of the new kernel configuration but that was only my presumption.

Any help bout this?

Thanks much!

By: cleroy61

cleroy61 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:17:42 +0000

I found answer through freeBSD forum ; the command is not enough

portsnap fetch extract

I tried this one after building the jail with ezjail-admin create

portsnap -p /usr/jails/basejail/usr/ports/ fetch extract

it’s OK now !

By: cleroy61

cleroy61 — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:41:17 +0000

Hello,
When I create a jail with ezjai, I can not access usr/ports from my jail to install nginx;

jexec 2 cd /usr/ports/www/nginx && make install clean
No such file or directory

It does not exist in fact, how can I link to my jail?
I’m out of my jail and I am a portsnap extract command
and then an portsnap fetch update command, thinking I did not open the softwares worn.
it is present but with the letter ‘l’ in front, preventing me from going there as a directory:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 19 Sep 5 11:12 ports -> /basejail/usr/ports

Thanking you Sincerely Christophe

By: Dhenin Jean-Jacques

Dhenin Jean-Jacques — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:09:09 +0000

Appréciable. Merci beaucoup. Très utile.

By: Shoaibi

Shoaibi — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:41:40 +0000

@Vivek:
Good going…

@Valqk:
thanks, I was thinking to create one after reading the article…

By: Valqk

Valqk — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:56:06 +0000

Just to share, I’ve written a command called
jlog jailname. It makes jexec JID tcsh and logs you into the jail.
There it is: Link

p.s. I didn’t find my posts in mailing lists so I’ve posted in my blog. pls. feel free to delete this comment if you consider this as spam or something.