Re: jail.$jailname.conf not directly in /etc/ ?

> ----------------------------------------
> From: Jon Clausen <freebsd-questions@ymmv.dk>
> Sent: Sat Feb 19 10:28:24 CET 2022
> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: jail.$jailname.conf not directly in /etc/ ?
> ...
> I'm trying to keep things segregated from the base system, which basically
> just means that I'm putting all of the datasets, config files and whatever
> under /usr/local/ somewhere.
> 
> I'm making good progress, and am generally happy with everything except
> that I can't find a way to tell the "rc" system to look for the
> jail.$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...
> ....

Does it not work if you set up local_startup with /usr/local/rc.conf.d/jail as a directory? From rc.conf (5): 

     In addition to /etc/rc.conf.local you can also place smaller
     configuration files for each rc(8) script in the /etc/rc.conf.d directory
     or ⟨dir⟩/rc.conf.d directories specified in local_startup, which will be
     included by the load_rc_config function.  For jail configurations you
     could use the file /etc/rc.conf.d/jail to store jail specific
     configuration options.  If local_startup contains /usr/local/etc/rc.d and
     /opt/conf, /usr/local/rc.conf.d/jail and /opt/conf/rc.conf.d/jail will be
     loaded.  If ⟨dir⟩/rc.conf.d/⟨name⟩ is a directory, all of files in the
     directory will be loaded.  Also see the rc_conf_files variable below.



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