Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:31:42PM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Of course, there's no problem with using the form 'forest-friend' on the RHS of any assignments, so long as it's properly quoted, of course. Thanks for all your help! I chose to remove all hyphens instead. I use ezjail and have jails with hyphens. Everything works fine there. salut, Leon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
A jail with a dash in its name
I want to create a jail called forest-friend. And having a dash in the name seems to create problems for me. /etc/rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend: not found how do I escape that? -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On 21 December 2010 10:58, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.comwrote: I want to create a jail called forest-friend. And having a dash in the name seems to create problems for me. /etc/rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend: not found how do I escape that? -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org i'd stay away from characters like that. It should be ok in theory to use but in my experience it is more likely to cause problems in the future ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: i'd stay away from characters like that. It should be ok in theory to use but in my experience it is more likely to cause problems in the future There's no problem of having a dash in a hostname, so why should it be in a jailname? -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On 21 December 2010 11:23, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: i'd stay away from characters like that. It should be ok in theory to use but in my experience it is more likely to cause problems in the future There's no problem of having a dash in a hostname, so why should it be in a jailname? You tried single quotes? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: You tried single quotes? How? Where? :-) jail_'forest-friend'_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend also gives /etc/rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend: not found -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Dec 21 04:58:59 2010 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:58:38 +0100 From: Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: A jail with a dash in its name I want to create a jail called forest-friend. And having a dash in the name seems to create problems for me. /etc/rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend: not found how do I escape that? It looks to me like yo're chasing the wrong problem. That statement appears to be a shell variable assignment, yet the error message indicates that the system is trying to find an executable by the name of the entire expression. You need to show us the actual line in /etc/rc.conf _and_ the surrounding context. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: That statement appears to be a shell variable assignment, yet the error message indicates that the system is trying to find an executable by the name of the entire expression. You need to show us the actual line in /etc/rc.conf _and_ the surrounding context. part of rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend jail_forest-friend_hostname=forest-friend jail_forest-friend_ip=192.168.0.15 cheer# /etc/rc.d/jail /etc/rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend: not found jail_forest-friend_hostname=forest-friend: not found jail_forest-friend_ip=192.168.0.15: not found Usage: /etc/rc.d/jail [fast|force|one](start|stop|restart|rcvar) -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On 12/21/10 22:48, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Robert Bonomibon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: That statement appears to be a shell variable assignment, yet the error message indicates that the system is trying to find an executable by the name of the entire expression. You need to show us the actual line in /etc/rc.conf _and_ the surrounding context. part of rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend jail_forest-friend_hostname=forest-friend jail_forest-friend_ip=192.168.0.15 cheer# /etc/rc.d/jail /etc/rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend: not found jail_forest-friend_hostname=forest-friend: not found jail_forest-friend_ip=192.168.0.15: not found Usage: /etc/rc.d/jail [fast|force|one](start|stop|restart|rcvar) I believe what was referred to earlier was the lack of quotes- as in . The rc variables in the conf are strings, so your rc.conf should have this: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend jail_forest-friend_ip=192.168.0.15 However, whether or not a hyphen is allowed in the jail name is another matter. Yes a hyphen is allowed in a hostname, but in the rc.conf the hostname is set in a string (as mentioned before). Also, the jail name and hostname don't need to be the same thing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: However, whether or not a hyphen is allowed in the jail name is another matter. Yes a hyphen is allowed in a hostname, but in the rc.conf the hostname is set in a string (as mentioned before). Also, the jail name and hostname don't need to be the same thing. Hence my email :-) This is how my rc.conf looks now: #jail configuration for forest-friend jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend jail_forest-friend_hostname=forest-friend jail_forest-friend_ip=192.168.0.15 But still: [r...@cheer /usr/local/share/jailcfg/templates/default/etc]# /etc/rc.d/jail /etc/rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend: not found jail_forest-friend_hostname=forest-friend: not found jail_forest-friend_ip=192.168.0.15: not found Usage: /etc/rc.d/jail [fast|force|one](start|stop|restart|rcvar) -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On 21 December 2010 13:21, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: However, whether or not a hyphen is allowed in the jail name is another matter. Yes a hyphen is allowed in a hostname, but in the rc.conf the hostname is set in a string (as mentioned before). Also, the jail name and hostname don't need to be the same thing. Hence my email :-) This is how my rc.conf looks now: #jail configuration for forest-friend jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend jail_forest-friend_hostname=forest-friend jail_forest-friend_ip=192.168.0.15 But still: [r...@cheer /usr/local/share/jailcfg/templates/default/etc]# /etc/rc.d/jail /etc/rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend: not found jail_forest-friend_hostname=forest-friend: not found jail_forest-friend_ip=192.168.0.15: not found Usage: /etc/rc.d/jail [fast|force|one](start|stop|restart|rcvar) -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Its a shell limitation, neither bash or sh allow '-' as a valid character in a variable name $ sh $ test-car=test test-car=test: not found $ test\car=test testcar=test: not found $ test\\-car=test test\-car=test: not found ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On 21/12/2010 12:23, Christer Solskogen wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, kradkra...@gmail.com wrote: i'd stay away from characters like that. It should be ok in theory to use but in my experience it is more likely to cause problems in the future There's no problem of having a dash in a hostname, so why should it be in a jailname? Well, the immediate reason here is this: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Definitions name A word consisting solely of letters, numbers, and underscores, and beginning with a letter or underscore. Names are used as shell variable and function names. Also referred to as an identifier. (ignoring that /bin/sh is not bash but the syntax is the same for this purpose). /etc/rc.conf is basically a shell script containing only variable assignments. I think you actually *could* have jails with arbitrary names (including international / utf-8 if you're not worried about formatting much) but only if you are going to manage them manually, not with /etc/rc.conf. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On 21/12/2010 12:11, Robert Bonomi wrote: I want to create a jail called forest-friend. And having a dash in the name seems to create problems for me. /etc/rc.conf: jail_forest-friend_rootdir=/usr/jails/forest-friend: not found how do I escape that? You don't. rc.conf uses bourne shell syntax. The entries are all variable initializations. jail_forest-friend_rootdir is illegal as a variable name -- you can't have a '-' character in there. I suggest you /call/ your jail forest_friend and use that form in everything that appears on the LHS of an assignment in rc.conf. Of course, there's no problem with using the form 'forest-friend' on the RHS of any assignments, so long as it's properly quoted, of course. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: A jail with a dash in its name
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Of course, there's no problem with using the form 'forest-friend' on the RHS of any assignments, so long as it's properly quoted, of course. Thanks for all your help! I chose to remove all hyphens instead. -- chs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
