From 0e2bb6a9ec73da8ef90e8e7cce2bff8ce0f135e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: erdgeist Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:13:58 +0000 Subject: Tightening up documentation. --- man1/ezjail-admin.1 | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) (limited to 'man1/ezjail-admin.1') diff --git a/man1/ezjail-admin.1 b/man1/ezjail-admin.1 index 85a8ed8..aaa40d2 100755 --- a/man1/ezjail-admin.1 +++ b/man1/ezjail-admin.1 @@ -24,38 +24,38 @@ The tool is used to manage jails inside the ezjail scope. It is not used to start or stop ezjails jails. Refer to ezjail(5) for more details. .SH ezjail-admin create -makes a copy of the ezjail template jail to the standard jail directory, -using either the name specified with the -r option or a name derived from -the given hostname. - -If the jailroot does not start with a /, it is -interpreted relative to ezjails root dir (default: /usr/jails). If the -given jailroot lies outside ezjails root dir, a soft link is created -inside ezjails root dir pointing to the newly created jails location. - -If the -x (jail exists) option is given, -.B the first step is skipped (an existing jail is used) -useful in situations where you just want to alter some of a jail properties and -called ezjail-admin delete without the -w option before. However, sanity -checks are being performed. - -It then creates an entry in its -.I EZJAIL_PREFIX/etc/ezjail/ -resource directory allowing the jail to be brought up after next reboot. - -If the ezjail_mount_enable option is set, a +copies the template jail to the root of a new jail, whose name and IP +address are provided as mandatory parameters. + +If no jail root is specified via the -r option, it is derived from +the jails name. In this case or, if a jail root is given and does not +start with a '/', it is interpreted relative to ezjails root dir +(default: +.I /usr/jails +). If a specified jail root lies outside ezjail root dir, a soft link +is created inside this root dir pointing to the newly created jails +location. + +The -x (jail exists) option indicates, that an ezjail already exists +at the jail root. +.B In this case nothing is copied. ezjail only updates its config. +This is useful in situations where you just want to alter some of a +jail properties and called ezjail-admin delete without the -w option +before. However, sanity checks are being performed. + +The script creates an entry in its config and a .I /etc/fstab.hostname -is generated, allowing the basejail to be auto-mounted when the jail starts -up. +file allowing the jail to be brought up after next reboot (or) via +the EZJAIL_PREFIX/etc/rc.d/ezjail.sh script. -The newly created Jail can perform some initializiation actions, if the +The newly created jail can perform some initializiation actions, if the -f .I flavour option is given, where .I flavour -is a directory directory tree under ezjails root dir (default: -.I /usr/jails/flavours). -See section +is a directory tree under ezjails root dir (default: +.I /usr/jails/flavours +). See section .B FLAVOURS below for more details. @@ -63,29 +63,26 @@ Options for newly created jails are read from .B ezjail.conf, refer to ezjail.conf(5) for more information. .SH ezjail-admin delete -removes a jail from ezjails -.I EZJAIL_PREFIX/etc/ezjail/ -resource directory thus preventing -it from being brought up on next reboot. - -It then removes the +removes a jail from ezjails config and the corresponding .I /etc/fstab.hostname -entry, if it exists. +file, thus preventing the jail from being brought +up on next reboot. -If the -w (wipe) option is given, the directory pointed to by the jail +If the -w (wipe) option is given, the directory pointed to by the jail root entry is removed as well as the soft link in ezjails root dir. .SH ezjail-admin list lists all jails inside ezjails scope, together with some information on them. .SH ezjail-admin update -is used to create or update ezjails basejail. Depending on the parameters +creates or update ezjails basejail. Depending on the parameters given it will install a FreeBSD system from a source tree whose location is either provided in the .B ezjail.conf config file or via the -s option. -If the -p or -P options are given, the base jail is given a copy of FreeBSDs -ports tree, which is in turn linked into all newly created ezjails. +If the -p or -P options are given, the base jail also is given a copy of +FreeBSDs ports tree, which is in turn linked into all newly created +ezjails. If the -P option is given, .B only the ports tree will be checked out/updated, @@ -116,7 +113,7 @@ When a ports tree exists in base jail, a make.conf containing reasonable values for having ports in jails is created in the template jail. .SH FLAVOURS .B ezjail-admin -provides an easy way to create many Jails with similar or identical +provides an easy way to create many jails with similar or identical properties. Currently it supports creating users, installing files and installing packages. @@ -125,7 +122,7 @@ A sample flavour config directory resides under Some typical Jail initialization actions are demonstrated and you are encouraged to use it as a template for your flavours. -If a flavour is selected on Jail creation, the flavour root is being +If a flavour is selected on jail creation, the flavour root is being copied to the new Jails root, mostly containing an .I /ezjail.flavour . If the Jail starts up for the first time it runs a setup script found @@ -133,11 +130,11 @@ at .I /etc/rc.d/ezjail-config.sh. This script will create some users specified in the flavour config. -It will then chown files specified in the flavour config. (This is to allow -giving file to users that didn't exist on Jail creation time.) All +It will then chown files specified in the flavour config. (This allows +chown-ing files to users only created by the config script.) All packages residing under .I /pkg -will be installed. Finally the script +will be pkg_install-ed. Finally the script .I /ezjail.postinstall is being sourced, if it exists. @@ -156,8 +153,11 @@ ezjail-admin delete ns.test.org .br ezjail-admin create -x -r /jails/ns ns.test.org 10.0.2.1 .SH BUGS -.B ezjail-admin -does not perform paranoid checks on its variables. +Due to the way ezjail handles jail config files it is not possible to +create multiple jails if their names are identical when piped through +.B tr -C [:alnum:] _ + +Sure to be others. .SH FILES .T4 EZJAIL_PREFIX/etc/ezjail.conf -- cgit v1.2.3