Newb alert...

[Jon Passki]

On 1/30/08, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm trying to set up my first jail, and have been following the
> handbook, Chapter 15, and a printout of 'man 8 jail' from the
> freebsd.org web site.
>
> I've followed the steps in the handbook through 15.4 (the 'make
> distribution' step got an error, which I ignored after reading the
> notes) up to the point where I entered the following in my
> /etc/rc.conf.

If possible, can you post all of the steps?

> jail_enable="YES"
> jail_list="wotan"
> jail_wotan_rootdir="/jails/wotan"
> jail_wotan_hostname="wotan.mycompany.com"
> jail_wotan_ip="192.168.24.123"
> jail_wotan_devfs_enable="YES"
> jail_wotan_devfs_ruleset="wotan_ruleset"
>
> I then did /etc/rc.d/jail /start wotan

`/etc/rc.d/jail start wotan`  # notice no forward slash in front of 'start'

Also, I don't see a "jail_exec_start" statement nor a
"jail_wotan_exec_start" statement anywhere.  This could easily cause
problems.  You should have something like:

jail_wotan_exec_start="/bin/sh /etc/rc"              # command to
execute in jail for starting
jail_wotan_exec_stop="/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown"      # command to
execute in jail for stopping

Somewhere.  If you remove the "wotan" from the above, then that will
be the default setting.

>
> and that didn't work, giving the following lines:
>
>      Starting jails: cannot start jail "wotan":
>      jail: getpwnam: root: no such file or directory

Does /jails/wotan/etc/passwd, /jails/wotan/etc/master.passwd,
/jails/wotan/etc/pwd.db, and /jails/wotan/etc/spwd.db exist?

> I googled a bit, but only find a reference to this on the -current
> list, regarding ZFS, which I'm not using.

Red herring, methinks.

Jon