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NAME
jailer - jailer is a script for creating jails from Debian packages
SYNOPSIS
jailer <jailer.conf> <jail identifier>
DESCRIPTION
jailer
is a script for creating chrooted environments for Debian packages.
Jailer deals only with Debian packages, which should be installed
to your Debian system.
WARNING
Do not configure your daemon inside your jail, because the
updatejail
script will wipe out all the data inside the jail. If you would
like to change any settings inside the jail, make the changes in the
original location and then run
updatejail
. This makes it possible to place a jail even to a ramdisk.
Options
<jailer.conf>
The configuration file which contains the settings of the new chrooted
environment. For further information see
man 5 jailer.conf
<jail identifier>
identifier which determines which jail will be created. This identifier
has to be defiend in
jailer.conf
.