[Bug 218849] Remove rc.conf jail configuration via jail_* variables

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218849

--- Comment #7 from Joe Barbish <qjail1_at_a1poweruser.com> ---
In reply to comment # 3 which states

"But I believe the number of ezjail-jails is significant." 

This is un-true, since 10.0 was published many ezjail users have been moving to
qjail because qjail uses jail.conf and its a fork of ezjail so the users are
familiar with its operation  

"Also, as you can see, until now (11.0) it's the 3rd-party tool recommended by
the FreeBSD project itself (if you take the mentioning in the handbook as an
endorsement)."

This statement is also un-true. The FreeBSD project itself never publicly
stated any position of 3rd-party tools. The inclusion of ezjail in the handbook
is a current departure from the previous long held guild lines that no
how-to-use details of 3rd-party tools would be contained in the handbook. A
simple statement listing all the 3rd-party tools that may serve a certain
function was allowable. The how-to-use details belong in the the 3rd-party
tools manual pages.  


My comment.
With RELEASE 10.0 published 1/4/2014, jail.conf became the direction jails are
headed. Any one who uses the rc.conf jail method even today gets the warning
message telling them to convert to the jail.conf method. This warming has been
in existence for 3+ years now. This warning message even shows up when ezjail
starts its jails. Its not like the ezjail maintainer doesn't know about this.
ezjail has had 2 updates since 1/4/2014 when RELEASE 10.0 was published, PR#
357253, committed 6/10/14, an upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4, and PR# 402477 committed
11/27/2015, an upgrade from 3.4 to 3.4.2. The internal design of ezjail still
has not been changed to the jail.conf method. 3+ years has been more than
enough time for ezjail to be upgraded to the jail.conf method if the maintainer
so desired. 

Based on the replies, I see no reason to not remove the rc.conf jail definition
method from the rc.d script set now. Further more this task should be made a
priority so it gets accomplished for inclusion in 11.1.

At the same time the handbook ezjail section should be removed from the
handbook being replaced with a simple informational statement listing all the
3rd-party jail tools, thus giving all of them fair and equal footing in the
handbook.

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