How To JAILS - Create, Remove, Install apps in jails on FreeBSD?

[S3TH76]

How to create, remove jails on FreeBSD? Multiple jails with some grade of task automatization and with simple, standard commands.

How to delete files & directories from a partially deleted jails? I'm root and jails service is stopped.

How to install apps in different jails (mysql, nginx, joomla).

 

[SirDice]

Handbook: Chapter 15 Jails

 

[bsdnet]

I also followed Handbook: Chapter 15 Jails and created a couple of Jails days ago during learning.
The instruction works. The only caveat is that Jails configuration is still using the legacy way
--- /etc/rc.conf. After digging a lot of posts in this forums, I changed the configuration
to the modern way --- /etc/jail.conf.

 

[max21]

I also followed Handbook: Chapter 15 Jails and created a couple of Jails days ago during learning.
The instruction works. The only caveat is that Jails configuration is still using the legacy way
--- /etc/rc.conf. After digging a lot of posts in this forums, I changed the configuration
to the modern way --- /etc/jail.conf.

I'm not sure yet. I'm using the manual and looking through these links. I’m installing Ezjail right now. This guy actually sold me to use Ezjails.
http://www.scottro.net/qnd/qnd-jail.html

This one is too deep for me but has a lot of addition information that we both can use.
http://wiki.localhost.lu/FreeBSD_Jails

I still plan to build one gigantic manual jail. ezjail-admin update –i just finished with no errors. Good luck S3TH76

 

[kaivai]

This probably isn't the recommended way, but I think at least in FreeBSD 10, while deprecated, the /etc/jail entries can be created automatically from your /etc/rc.conf when the jail starts. I learned by following the examples in the FreeBSD manual as well, it's reassuring to have something working before playing around too much with the settings .

 

[Oko]

sysutils/pcbsd-utils includes Warden. You might also want to check sysutils/cbsd. I use Warden.

 

[ondra_knezour]

Couple of days ago MWL just put together small list of jails management tools, some of them was unknown to me. May be useful to you. http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2291

 

[scottro]

Just to mention, that scottro.net article is old and unmaintained. I (said scottro), haven't used ezjail in a long time. That is no criticism against ezjail, it's just that that article hasn't been tested in years.