NAME

DESCRIPTION

This file is really a shell script that is sourced by the ezjail-admin command at run-time. “(str)” denotes a string; it should be enclosed in quotes if it contains space. “(bool)” notes a boolean, whose possible values are “YES” and “NO”.

PATH OPTIONS

ezjail_jaildir (str)

Location of jail root directories.
Default: /usr/jails.

ezjail_jailtemplate (str)

Location of template jail used to create a new jail
Default: ${ezjail_jaildir}/newjail.

ezjail_jailbase (str)

Location of base jail, the one that is mounted to all jails
Default: ${ezjail_jaildir}/basejail.

ezjail_sourcetree (str)

Location of your copy of FreeBSD's source tree (refer to the ezjail-admin(8) utility for more information).
Default: /usr/src.

ezjail_flavours_dir (str)

Location of the flavours, where each directory is a different flavour.
Default: ${ezjail_jaildir}/flavours.

ezjail_ftphost (str)

This is where the install subcommand defaults to fetch its packages from.
Default: ftp.freebsd.org.

ezjail_archivedir (str)

This is the default archive location for the ezjail-admin archive command.
Default: ${ezjail_jaildir}/ezjail_archives.

JAIL ADMIN OPTIONS

ezjail_default_execute (str)

This is the default command executed in a jail by ezjail-admin console.
Default: /usr/bin/login -f root.

ezjail_exec_start (str)

The command to execute in a jail when starting it.
Default: /bin/sh /etc/rc.

JAIL CREATION OPTIONS

ezjail_mount_enable (bool)

Controls whether /etc/fstab. hostname should be executed at jail startup time.
Default: YES.

ezjail_devfs_enable (bool)

Controls whether newly created jails are given a working /dev directory. (Refer to devfs(5) and jail(8) for more information).
Default: YES.

ezjail_devfs_ruleset (str)

Specifies which devfs ruleset should apply for newly created jails. (Refer to devfs(5) and jail(8) for more information).
Default: devfsrules_jail.

ezjail_procfs_enable (bool)

Controls whether newly created jails are given a working /proc directory. (Refer to procfs(5) and jail((8)) for more information).
Default: YES.

ezjail_fdescfs_enable (bool)

Controls whether newly created jails are given a working /dev/fd/ directory. (Refer to fdescfs((5)) and jail((8)) for more information).
Default: YES.

ezjail_uglyperlhack (bool)

Set to YES, if ezjail should provide a soft link from /usr/bin/perl to /usr/local/bin/perl in base jail.
Default: YES.

ezjail_default_flavour (str)

Controls which flavours should be used for newly created jails if none are given on the command line.
Default: none.

ezjail_imagetype (one of simple, bde, eli, zfs)

Type of jail to create when creating a jail with the -i flag without specifying the type explicitly.
Default: simple

ZFS OPTIONS

ezjail_use_zfs (bool)

Set to YES, if ezjail should manage basejail and newjail in a separate ZFS-datasets.
Default: NO.

ezjail_use_zfs_for_jails (bool)

Set to YES, if ezjail should manage all new jails in their own ZFS-datasets. To override that on the command line, use ezjail-admin create -c simple for image based jails or ezjail-admin create -c '' for non-image jails.
Default: NO.

ezjail_jailzfs (str)

The name of the parent ZFS-dataset which ezjail will use to create jails on. It will be mounted in ezjail_jaildir. Setting this will automatically enable ezjail managing jails in separate ZFS-datasets.
Default: none.

ezjail_zfs_properties (str)

Default properties ZFS will use for creating datasets. See zfs(1m) for details. ADVANCED, be very careful!
Default: none.

ezjail_default_retention_policy (str)

Policy for the ezjail-admin snapshot subcommand to keep older snapshots. See ezjail-admin(1) for details.
Default: none.

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SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

The man page is based on a draft by JoeB ⟨joeb1@a1poweruser.com⟩ and was rewritten by Frederic Perrin ⟨frederic.perrin@resel.fr⟩.