NAME

       jailer.conf - configuration file of jailer

SYNOPSIS

       jailer.conf

DESCRIPTION

       jailer is a script for creating chrooted environments for Debian packages.

       jailer.conf is the configuration file for jailer.conf

       Every  configuration  definition has to start and end with a jail identifier, which should
       be unique and be in brackets.

       <apache>
              For example, an Apache chroot identifier should look like this:

       </apache>
              The identifier use needs to be closed.

              The configuration for the chroot instance is defined inside these identifiers.  The
              following lines can be used to describe the configuration:

       Root: /var/chroot/apache

              This line describes the PATH of the chrooted enviroment.

       Conf:

              This  line  describes  the PATH or PATH/filename which should be copied over to the
              chrooted environment. For example Conf: /etc/apache/* , which uses a wild card.

       Debs:

              This line contains the name of those Debian packages which should be installed into
              the chrooted environment.

       Junk-Debs:

              This  line  contains  those  deb  packages  which  should not be installed into the
              chrooted environment.

       Junk:

              This line contains those files or directories which should not  be  installed.  For
              example  /lib/* means all files and links under /lib should not be installed, while
              /lib/libconsole.so.0.0.0 means a file which should not to be installed.

       Extra:

              This line contains those files or directories which should be  installed  into  the
              chrooted  environment. For example: /var/run will install that a directory which is
              needed for the chrooted service.

WARNING

       Do not configure your daemon inside your jail, because updatejail script will wipe out all
       the  data  inside the jail. If you would want 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.

SEE ALSO

       updatejail(8) jailer.conf(5), dpkg(8)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Péter Höltzl <peter.holtzl@balabit.hu>.

                                         December 4, 2001                               JAILER(5)