sysctl variables not propagating to children jails

Jamie Gritton jamie at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 10 15:49:33 UTC 2009


Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Edwin Shao wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> In the most recent -current, I've noticed that sysctl variables no
>> longer propagate to jails and thus it is impossible to allow raw
>> sockets, allow mounting, etc. This might be related to
>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-jail@freebsd.org/msg00847.html>.
> ..
>> Please let me know if I'm doing something stupid!
> 
> No, nothing apart from probably not spotting that the problem was
> already well understood and there had been workarounds suggested at
> the end of the above thread.
> 
> 
> That said, expect the problem to be fixed within 24 hours.  You will
> only have to rebuild your jail(8) command line tool, once you spot the
> commit by:
> 
> 1) update your source and make sure to have the new version of jail.c
> 2) cd src/usr.sbin/jail
> 3) make obj && make depend && make all
> 4) sudo make install
> 5) try again.
> 
> In case you still see problems afterwards, cry again, loud and in
> here - in case that will fix the problem a short note will be
> welcome as well;-)

The patch is now in for this - recompile jail(8) with r193929.

- Jamie


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