Advice/guidance requested.

[James Lodge]

On 14 Jan 2014 16:37, "g8kbvdave at googlemail.com" <g8kbvdave at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:21:41 -0000, g8kbvdave at googlemail.com wrote:
> >  > Hi.
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> >  > PLEASE don't just point me at "The Handbook".  It's useless if you don't already
> >  > know what to do.   (And in all honesty, even if you do, it's not often much help
> >  > I find.)
> >
> > The handbook section on jails is pretty good actually, though it may be
> > a bit out of date - nonetheless I suggest familiarising yourself with
> > it, and then using ezjail, which is very well documented itself.
> >
> > ezjail's author Dirk Engling (erdgeist) hangs out in freebsd-jail but
> > rarely has to answer questions himself since many competant ezjail users
> > hang out here.
> >
> > I just googled 'ezjail' and the first reference, before the rather out
> > of date though useful cyberciti.biz one someone mentioned and a number
> > of other possibly useful links, is the real thing:
> >
> > http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/
> >
> > cheers, Ian
>
>
> OK Thanks.
>
> Re the "Handbook" and the comment "though it may be a bit out of date".
>
> Sadly, it's the "a bit out of date" parts, that stump me each time, so that's one
> of the major reasons why I find the "Handbook" so difficult to get on with.    I
> guess as those people who use jails and such don't need to reference the
> Handbook, it doesn't keep up to speed with the releases in the real world?
>
> (Of course, that NEVER happens in other walks of life, does it!  :)  )
>
> Anyway...
>
> I've spent some time on and off, reading up on all this, as a result I am at
> present veering towards qjail, as for whatever reason, I do find the doc's easier
> to follow and understand.   (Remember, I'm not from a Unix background.  I ar
> just a lowley engineering technician, who want's to do something safe(er) with
> a webserver for a hobby site.)
>
> As well as qjail though, I've also got an indipendant VM setup to use ezjail, so
> I'll experiment with both and see what happens.
>
> As always however, I find it difficult these days to get "enough of the right sort
> of contiguious time" to fiddle and learn about all this stuff, what with daily life,
> work + domestic and other social time swallowers.
>
> Slow progress, but progress none the less.
>
> Cheers All.
>
> Dave B.
>
>

May I make a suggestion. It might be worth trying PC-BSD and Warden. Kris Moore and guys have done a good job of the GUI which makes it very easy. The command line is also available should you want/need it.