Hi everyone,
I am very desperate with this so I ask for your help
I have a FreeBSD vps server (8.0 release) with 3 IPs. Anyway my goal is to create 2 jails (ns1 & ns2) So far so good I created the jails the traditional way and it seems that they are working fine.
However, when the server restarts jails refuse to "come up" complaining about not being able to mount devfs:
My rc.conf contains the following:
I have tried a million different combinations for starting but the result is always the same.
I always have to manually mount devfs:
and then start the jail with:
Please help :e
George
I am very desperate with this so I ask for your help

I have a FreeBSD vps server (8.0 release) with 3 IPs. Anyway my goal is to create 2 jails (ns1 & ns2) So far so good I created the jails the traditional way and it seems that they are working fine.
Code:
JID IP Address Hostname Path
1 xxx.xxx.xxx ns1.foo.net /usr/jails/ns1/
2 xxx.xxx.xxx ns2.foo.net /usr/jails/ns2/
Code:
Jan 2 15:07:38 mail root: /etc/rc: WARNING: devfs_domount(): Unable to mount devfs on /usr/jail/ns1/dev
Jan 2 15:07:38 mail root: /etc/rc: WARNING: devfs_mount_jail: devfs was not mounted on /usr/jail/ns1/dev
Code:
jail_enable="YES"
jail_list="ns1 ns2"
jail_ns1_rootdir="/usr/jail/ns1"
jail_ns1_hostname="ns1.foo.net"
jail_ns1_ip="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
jail_ns1_exec_start="/bin/sh /etc/rc"
jail_ns1_devfs_enable="YES"
...
I always have to manually mount devfs:
Code:
mount -t devfs devfs /usr/jails/ns1/dev
Code:
jail /usr/jails/ns1/ ns1.foo.net xxx.xxx.xxx /bin/sh /etc/rc
Please help :e
George