On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Daniel Black wrote:

>    In config/jail.conf:


>  > -# Changes:  in most of the cases you should not modify this
>  > -#           file, but provide customizations in jail.local file, e.g.:
>  > +# YOU SHOULD NOT MODIFY THIS FILE.
>  > +#
>  > +# It will probably be overwitten or improved in a distribution update.
>  > +#
>  > +# Provide customizations in a jail.local file or a jail.d/customisation.local.

>    as per [1]#392 I don't think it does.

ah -- I thought you fixed it if it didn't... am I wrong?

>    In my understanding local files are
>    for users and conf files are for distros. I guess it is wrong as without
>    that patch as *.local files aren't currently read.

>    I do have some concerns that this jail.conf is a mix of a sensible base
>    jails and showing off examples (with a little overuse of sendmail-whois)
>    but changing those is a little harder.

major overhaul of jail.conf is in 0.9 .  Here we better minimize the
changes so upgrades would not be too difficult (for Debian I maintain
separate jail.conf anyways, which served as a basis for the one in 0.9)

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