[Gllug] Any BSD users on here?

[Jim Bailey]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:02:39PM +0000, Steve Nicholson wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:31:01 +0000 Jim Bailey wrote:
> > 
> > Of course I could be talking completly out of my arse here.
> 
> Hi Jim
> No it's not in a chroot environment, thanks for the link as I had no
> idea what chroot was until reading through that.  FreeBSD has a "jail"
> facility which effectively provides a virtual machine environment, so
> it's a safe server within a larger one (next step up from chroot).  Our
> ISP uses it to enable clients full server access to their own system,
> files, processes etc yet still share machine with others.  White paper
> about it here if your interested.
> http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html
> 
> It's great, it's like having my own managed server with root access to
> everything yet the low cost of sharing the service with others. I can
> even reboot it like a real server if I feel so inclined.  Only problem
> is now I'm having to learn the difference between using Linux (running
> at home/office) and getting the same things working on FreeBSD for our
> production stuff.  It's all the little things I don't know that keep
> tripping me up and wasting time.
> 
> Thanks again for the reply it was very helpful to learn about chroot.

I was talking out of my arse as usual but as usual some kind soul put me 
right and gave a good link.  This jail idea seem really smart, I haven't
read the full paper yet but I intend to later today.

I must spend more time with BSD it might even let me get on better with
OS X.

Many Thanks Steve. :)

Peace Jim

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