Re: FreeBSD Documentation

From: Yuri Pankov <yuripv_at_gmx.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 19:47:33 +0300
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:13:16 +0800, Blubee Blubeeme wrote:
> How can we suggest edits for the docs?
> 
> The docs still reference using sysinstall to setup a jail when it hasn't
> been that since at least 2011
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release-ports
> 
>       Start a shell in the jail:
> 
> 	   jail	-c path=/data/jail/testjail mount.devfs	\
> 		   host.hostname=testhostname ip4.addr=192.0.2.100 \
> 		   command=/bin/sh
> 
>       Assuming no errors, you will end up with a	shell prompt within the	jail.
>       You can now run */usr/sbin/sysinstall* and do the post-install configura-
>       tion to set various configuration options,	or perform these actions manu-
>       ally by editing */etc/rc.conf*, etc.

While you were already given a lot of correct replies, exactly the 
change you want is already in HEAD (though as noted in followup, it 
could really say bsdconfig instead of bsdinstall):

Author: bjk (doc committer)
Date: Wed Oct 18 22:56:46 2017
New Revision: 324732
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/324732

Log:
   Adopt jail.8 to our brave new bsdinstall world

   Submitted by:	Steve Kargl
   MFC after:	3 days
Received on Sun Oct 29 2017 - 15:47:37 UTC

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