Re: [Ukfreebsd] [UkOpenBSDUsers] August meetup

[andy thomas <andy%time-domain.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Owain Ainsworth wrote:

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> > We currently have a tie,
> > one vote for Paddington
> > &
> > one for central london
> > Anyone else have a preference on location?
>
> I vote paddington. Nice to have a change.

Is this now definite for tomorrow?

Also, a technical question about jails set up under ezjail: the scenario 
is a server running FBSD 8.0/amd64 has some jails running on it which are 
frequently rsync'd to a second server which acts as a failover. Apparently 
this used to work OK (so I'm told) but something happened to the second 
server and it was sent away for repair - when it came back all the disks 
had been replaced and there was no O/S.

FBSD 8.0 wouldn't install on the repaired server but 8.1 did and it's 
working OK and rsyncing the jails over from the other server. But even 
though ezjail has been built & installed and the ezjail.cond file copied 
over from the other server, executing '/usr/local/etc/ezjail.sh start' 
does nothing. The 2 questions I have are:

        1. is it OK to simply mirror jails from one server to the
           other or do I have to actually use ezjail-admin to install,
           update & create the empty jails first and then mirror them
           afterwards?

        2. is the FBSD version mismatch likely to be an issue? I
           know I can create FBSD 8.0 jails on a 8.1 host but I'm not
           sure if this is why the jails are not starting on the
           backup server.

The jails are all under /home/jails by the way and as you can see I'm new 
to ezjail.

Andy