containing the jailid, path, hostname, ip and the command used to start
the jail.
PR: misc/89883
Submitted by: L. Jason Godsey <lannygodsey -at- yahoo.com>
Reviewed by: phk
MFC after: 1 week
hence bump it to 6.
Note that the last commit message was not quite accurate. While the
assumption exists in the code, it's not possible to have an
uninitialized p there because if lflag is set when username is NULL
then execution would be terminated earlier.
seeing status of mounted file system for jailed processes.
Pass full path of jail's root directory to the kernel. mount(8) utility is
doing the same thing already.
o getpwnam(3) returns NULL and does not set errno when the user does
not exist. Bail out with "no such user" instead of "Unknown error: 0".
PR: bin/67262
Submitted by: demon (-U flag)
MFC after: 3 weeks
o Add jexec(8) to execute a command in an existing jail.
o Add -j option for killall(1) to kill all processes in a specified
jail.
o Add -i option to jail(8) to output jail ID of newly created jail.
This is a seriously beefed up chroot kind of thing. The process
is jailed along the same lines as a chroot does it, but with
additional tough restrictions imposed on what the superuser can do.
For all I know, it is safe to hand over the root bit inside a
prison to the customer living in that prison, this is what
it was developed for in fact: "real virtual servers".
Each prison has an ip number associated with it, which all IP
communications will be coerced to use and each prison has its own
hostname.
Needless to say, you need more RAM this way, but the advantage is
that each customer can run their own particular version of apache
and not stomp on the toes of their neighbors.
It generally does what one would expect, but setting up a jail
still takes a little knowledge.
A few notes:
I have no scripts for setting up a jail, don't ask me for them.
The IP number should be an alias on one of the interfaces.
mount a /proc in each jail, it will make ps more useable.
/proc/<pid>/status tells the hostname of the prison for
jailed processes.
Quotas are only sensible if you have a mountpoint per prison.
There are no privisions for stopping resource-hogging.
Some "#ifdef INET" and similar may be missing (send patches!)
If somebody wants to take it from here and develop it into
more of a "virtual machine" they should be most welcome!
Tools, comments, patches & documentation most welcome.
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