On Tuesday 28 June 2005 09:37, Eirik Øverby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have, since upgrading to 5.x and updating my management tools, seen
> a number of problems relating to stopping jails.
>
> I'm maintaining several hosts with a number of full-featured jails
> (i.e. full virtual FreeBSD installations in each jail), and in
> general this works fine. However, whenever I stop a jail using 'jexec
> <id> kill -SIGNAL -1' or 'jexec <id> /bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown' (in
> various combinations), jails have a tendency to stick around for
> minutes or hours - according to 'jls'. Often I see an entry in
> 'netstat -a' indicating that there is one or more sockets in FIN_WAIT
> state, preventing the jail from coming down. Taking the virtual
> network interface (alias) down does not help. All I can do at this
> point is wait.

You could use tcpdrop(8) to close them? That might be enough to
kick the jail out.

> I normally use 'jls' to determine whether or not a jail can be
> restarted (i.e. it's not running), but this is pretty useless in such
> cases. And right now I have a case where 'netstat -a' shows me
> nothing pertaining to the jail, though it has no processes running. I
> have therefore force-started the jail again, which seems to work
> nicely, but now 'jls' gives me two entries for this jail, with
> different JIDs.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> /Eirik
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HTH,
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Dominic
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