Bug 29088

Summary:	jail(8) man page has innacurate instructions.
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Philip Hallstrom <philip>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Poul-Henning Kamp <phk>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Philip Hallstrom 2001-07-19 22:00:00 UTC

In the "Setting up a Jail Directory Tree" of the man page jail(8) it gives some instructions for setting up a jail.  It fails to mention that you need to create the jail directory first.  I figured the "make buildworld" or one of the following commands would create it, but it does not.   "make buildworld" eventually fails on an "mtree" command.

Fix: 

Either change the manpage or change the build process to create the directory if it doesn't already exist.

Comment 1 FUJISHIMA Satsuki freebsd_committer

2001-07-21 19:05:52 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->phk

Over to the author.

Comment 2 FUJISHIMA Satsuki freebsd_committer

2001-07-21 19:07:44 UTC

I think the originator requests a line of enhancement like this.

Index: src/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -u -r1.28 jail.8
--- src/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8	2001/07/15 08:02:00	1.28
+++ src/usr.sbin/jail/jail.8	2001/07/21 10:59:36
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 This shows how to setup a jail directory tree:
 .Bd -literal
 D=/here/is/the/jail
+mkdir -p $D
 cd /usr/src
 make world DESTDIR=$D
 cd etc

Comment 3 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer

2002-04-24 01:17:35 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->patched

Fixed in rev 1.33. 

MFC reminder.

Comment 4 Poul-Henning Kamp freebsd_committer

2002-05-11 07:27:34 UTC

State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

Fixed by Johan K and jedgar, thanks guys!