jail

Create and manage FreeBSD jails for lightweight isolation.

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Syntax

$jail [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]

Examples

$jail -c path=/jail name=test

Examples

$jail -r test

Examples

$jls

Typical use cases

Create jail

jail -c path=/jail name=test

Remove jail

jail -r test

List jails

jls

Note FreeBSD-specific container technology for secure process isolation.

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