2004-03-06
FreeBSD installation notes
FreeBSD is not my 'main' operating system, but the jail support is
so much better and more stable than anything comparable offered by
Linux that I use FreeBSD for servers which need jails.
But it not being 'main' I keep forgetting things to set up ;)
Setting global variables for ports:
Servers will never have X11 (nor GTK) so I kept giving WITHOUT_X11=yes and
WITHOUT_GTK=yes to compile ports. Global place to set this: /etc/make.conf
Getting into a jail from the main server when sshd isn't running yet:
jexec ID /bin/sh
(ID is the jail id from jls)
Stopping a jail:
jexec ID kill -TERM -1
jexec ID kill -KILL -1