I am a newbie server manager and trying jails. It's too hard to configure it. So I decided to use ezjail utility. It seems working, but I got an issue.
When I installed my FreeBSD box, it was 9.0-RELEASE. After I upgrade it, it became 9.1-RELEASE-p7.
The problem is ezjail tried to download FreeBSD distro from FreeBSD FTP site. And it failed because ezjail wanted 9.1-RELEASE-p7 and the site has only 9.1-RELEASE.
I tried forcing download by manually specifying 9.1-RELEASE path, but created jail doesn't work with this message.
Configuring jails:.
Starting jails: cannot start jail "example_com":
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Error: Could not start example.com
You need to start it by hand.
I have no idea why it doesn't work. What is the recommended way to configure a jail for beginner?
P.S. My test VM is using DHCP and doesn't have static IP and domain name. can it cause this problem?
Update
I succeeded to install a jail using bsdinstall jail $JAIL_NAME. Anyway, I have no idea how it's done...
/var/logmessages? You're trying to start a jail and it's failing right? What do the patch issues and version issues have to do with that?bsdinstall, and now I am not sure which file is really relevant toezjail. I'm sorry, and I will update this QA as I get better result./etc/rc.confto see ifbsdinstallauto made some config examples you can copy and crib for a manual configuration in the future. also forums.freebsd.org is THE go to place for freeBSD related stuff. I would highly recommend it (they can be rough - but it's worth it)./etc/rc.confas inetplumber mentioned. Configuring them really isn't hard at all, what were you having problems with exactly?? This really isn't a question so much as a rant about something not working...ezjailtries to download FreeBSD distro from FreeBSD FTP site. And it failed becauseezjailwanted9.1-RELEASE-p7and the site has only9.1-RELEASE. It was the message I saw.