Handbook chapter 15.6 problem

illoai at gmail.com illoai at gmail.com
Sat Jun 23 17:57:48 UTC 2007


On 22/06/07, Wesley Shields <wxs at atarininja.org> wrote:
> Someone on IRC just pointed out that following the directions in chapter
> 15.6 of the handbook doesn't work.  It appears that these instructions
> were written before SA-07:01 was done.  Setting a rootdir to /home
> doesn't work since /home is a symlink by default.
>
> Am I correct in thinking this?  If so I will gladly write up a patch to
> fix the handbook.

/home by default is only a symlink to /usr/home if
you do not set up /home on its own filesystem and
even then the instructions say:
  : Note: This assumes that the jails are based under
  : the /home partition. This can, of course, be changed
  : to anything else, but this change will have to be
  : reflected in each of the examples below.

I can hardly see how qualifying it further will clarify
anything.

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