Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
On 7 Jun 2011 at 21:03, Jack Raats wrote: - Original Message - Hi All. Total frustration here. Before I incinerate the luckless box and get my coat. For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how Exactly to create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
On 7 Jun 2011 at 12:10, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Dave wrote: For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how Exactly to create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD V8.x Did you start with the Handbook?

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
On 7 Jun 2011 at 15:23, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:53:13 +0100 Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk articulated: There is at the same time, not enough detailed info as to how to, and way too much detail of what there is. The Man pages are good references, but lousy how to's...

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Dave
On 8 Jun 2011 at 0:53, Julian H. Stacey wrote: and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports sources.. How do I confirm that, cd /usr/src make clean ; make cleandir ; make clean # gets rid of obj du -s -k 547684 . cant cd to /usr/src/share/info *** Error code 2 Stop in

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/06/2011 13:53, Dave wrote: As Andy and Kaya pointed out, I was missing the Base sources. As at some point, while fighting with the sysinstall menu system, the Base selection got un-selected. The best way to get along with sysinstall is not to use it. Or use it as little as possible.

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Dave wrote: For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how Exactly to create and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD V8.x Did you start with the Handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:53:13 +0100 Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk articulated: There is at the same time, not enough detailed info as to how to, and way too much detail of what there is. The Man pages are good references, but lousy how to's... (Sorry.) Many knowledgeable people consider man

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Jack Raats
- Original Message - From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 8:53 PM Subject: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help? Hi All. Total frustration here. Before I incinerate the luckless box and get my coat. For whatever

RE: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread a . smith
Hi Dave, I didn't find it total plain sailing myself when I did this for the first time a few months back. Ok, so I think you are sitting in /usr/src trying to run the make buildworld right? If you are getting the error you mentioned then I think it means you are missing the Makefile?

RE: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Silva, Thiago Alexandre Vitorino Da
...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of a.sm...@ukgrid.net Sent: terça-feira, 7 de junho de 2011 18:05 To: d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help? Hi Dave, I didn't find it total plain sailing myself when I did this for the first time

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi guys, just as I've been helping out already I did actually have this lot in my Wiki: http://wiki.optiplex-networks.com/xwiki/bin/view/FreeBSD/Installing_FreeBSD [quote] Please take note however that the *Buildworld* environment needs to have *all sources* installed into the system in

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Julian H. Stacey
and AFIK have downloaded all the sys and ports sources.. How do I confirm that, cd /usr/src make clean ; make cleandir ; make clean # gets rid of obj du -s -k 547684 . find . -type d -print | wc 47344734 119623 cd /usr/ports du -s -k 477244 . find .

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Edward
On 6/8/11 2:53 AM, Dave wrote: Hi All. [snip] What I have learnt so far, is that (for the most part) all the BSD's behave and work much the same. Unlike the hoards of different Linux's, all with their different ways of doing things. Spleen vented, anyone want a challenge? I promise not