Re: jail.$jailname.conf not directly in /etc/ ?
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 17:03:08 UTC
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 3:29 AM Jon Clausen <freebsd-questions@ymmv.dk> wrote: > > Hi > > I'm reworking my jails setup, transitioning from ezjail to a "manual" setup > which involves vnet and some homegrown scripts to set up zfs, nullfs > overlays, epairs, etc. > > I'm trying to keep things segregated from the base system, which basically > just means that I'm putting all of the datasets, config files and whatever > under /usr/local/ somewhere. > > I'm making good progress, and am generally happy with everything except > that I can't find a way to tell the "rc" system to look for the > jail.$jailname.conf files someplace other than /etc/ > > Basically, I think it's sort of messy and and impractical to have a bunch of > individual jail config files laying directly in /etc/. I would prefer to > have them all under, say, /usr/local/etc/jails/ or even /usr/local/etc/. > > But if the files aren't in /etc/, then `service` cannot find them, and jail > start/stop/whatever operations fail. > > I assume that the functionality is there, but the manpages for jail.conf, > rc.conf aren't making it obvious. And from an (admittedly superficial) > glance at /etc/rc.d/jail I don't really see how it would work with a > "global" path for the config files, other than the hardcoded /etc/. > > What I was hoping for would be some global setting in /etc/rc.conf, > /etc/jail.conf or somewhere... > > For this round of jails I am working on both 12.3-RELEASE and 13.0-RELEASE, > (both for the host systems and the jails) so it would be nice to find > something that works on both versions. > > Am I just being dense? > > I'm not having much luck finding any discussions about this anywhere > online either. But I can't believe that this topic has never come up > before, so I must assume that it's just me failing to compose my search > terms correctly... > > Any ideas? > In main we've added a facility to organize jail confs a little differently: /etc/jail.conf.d/<jail>.conf. I think, personally, if we're going to allow a flexible config here (which I think we should), we should just expand this latest form and leave the others be. I might've even brought this up in the review, because I had thought about it; maybe something like this: https://people.freebsd.org/~kevans/jail_conf_dirs.diff to search /etc/jail.conf.d and /usr/local/etc/jail.conf.d by default. That doesn't really solve the problem at hand, but it might be a clean solution for the future. Thanks, Kyle Evans