jails act weird....

[graudeejs]

It seams i can start jails even if they aren't on jail_list
As far as I know this is not normal....

can someone confirm this

FreeBSD killasmurf86.pc 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #1: Mon Nov 23 09:47:51 EET 2009
killasmurf86@killasmurf86.pc:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ANTIGENERIC  i386

 

[fronclynne]

I am no guru of jails, but they start fine here (8.0-RELEASE-p1 amd64) without anything jail-related in /etc/rc.conf, so I guess it's okay?

I did a bit of research & all I could find was some loose references & this:

From rc.conf(5):

jail_list (str) A space separated list of names for jails. This is
purely a configuration aid to help identify and configure
multiple jails. The names specified in this list will be
used to identify settings common to an instance of a jail.

 

[SirDice]

It seams i can start jails even if they aren't on jail_list
As far as I know this is not normal....

Jail_list only lists the jails that should be started at boot. I have 2 jails, one starts at boot, the other I start by hand. The one that starts at boot is the only one in jail_list. The other starts just fine even with the settings in jail_*. This also happened when my system was still at 7.x.

 

[graudeejs]

ok, thanks....