Following on the previous article about setting jails in FreeBSD, and done the basic stuff to have it up and running, the next step will be to add the needed software and make it useful.



At the moment it is a "empty" jail, just the base system is up and running and nothing else.
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For some time i have been looking into how to better isolate key services like mail server, web server and streaming server and relocate them onto a VM machine or as a long term user of FreeBSD using the jails service for this.

The main reason, or the good reason to use jails instead of a VM ...

It has been a while that i keep getting these warnings on the daily security log on one of my servers:

Checking for packages with mismatched checksums:
python3-3_3: /usr/local/bin/pydoc3
python3-3_3: /usr/local/bin/python3
python3-3_3: /usr/local/bin/python3-config
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Sometimes you will need to recover a Mac to have it running again, or you want to have a fresh install or set it to the initial factory settings.

In this new world of no more CD/DVD discs, you can go the route of preparing a USB memory stick with an macOS install image, but that always requir...