#jails — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jails, aggregated by home.social.
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AI-powered Reddit search (Answers) improving from one day to the next. Today:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tjgr0x/comment/onelt9p/?context=2>
From yesterday's comment:
"… this underscores the value of not trusting the first thing that we read …"
Not exciting, just food for thought.
Certainly not conclusive. I experiment with the feature very rarely … maybe ten times a year.
#AI #FreeBSD #Reddit #bhyve #Proxmox #jails #Docker #Linux #macOS #Windows
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New post: FreeBSD resource monitoring and accounting.
A practical tour of the base-system toolkit for figuring out *what is actually using my server*: top, vmstat, systat, gstat, netstat/sockstat, procstat, pfctl, and per-jail attribution with kern.racct and rctl.
No ports, no agents. Just FreeBSD.
https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/
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New post: FreeBSD resource monitoring and accounting.
A practical tour of the base-system toolkit for figuring out *what is actually using my server*: top, vmstat, systat, gstat, netstat/sockstat, procstat, pfctl, and per-jail attribution with kern.racct and rctl.
No ports, no agents. Just FreeBSD.
https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/
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New post: FreeBSD resource monitoring and accounting.
A practical tour of the base-system toolkit for figuring out *what is actually using my server*: top, vmstat, systat, gstat, netstat/sockstat, procstat, pfctl, and per-jail attribution with kern.racct and rctl.
No ports, no agents. Just FreeBSD.
https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/
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New post: FreeBSD resource monitoring and accounting.
A practical tour of the base-system toolkit for figuring out *what is actually using my server*: top, vmstat, systat, gstat, netstat/sockstat, procstat, pfctl, and per-jail attribution with kern.racct and rctl.
No ports, no agents. Just FreeBSD.
https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/
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New post: FreeBSD resource monitoring and accounting.
A practical tour of the base-system toolkit for figuring out *what is actually using my server*: top, vmstat, systat, gstat, netstat/sockstat, procstat, pfctl, and per-jail attribution with kern.racct and rctl.
No ports, no agents. Just FreeBSD.
https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/
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Can Zohran Mamdani’s New Correction Commissioner Solve the Problem of Rikers?
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Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ -
Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ -
Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ -
Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ -
Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ -
Shipped two releases of ansible-jailexec today. An Ansible connection plugin that runs tasks inside FreeBSD jails via jexec over SSH, without needing direct SSH into the jail.
v1.1.0: ground-up refactor. Now subclasses the built-in ssh plugin and merges its options at import time, so ControlPersist, jump hosts, private keys, password_mechanism. About a quarter of the old code.
v1.2.0: adds ansible_jail_root to override the jls probe for nested / VNET jail setups.
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A FreeBSD jail should be small. Installing Python into every jail just so your config management can run is the tail wagging the dog.
I wrote two tiny wrappers to plug cdist directly into jexec on the host.
The result? Full configuration management that asks for nothing but POSIX sh inside the jail itself. Zero daemons. Zero agents.
https://blog.hofstede.it/automating-freebsd-jails-with-cdist-zero-dependencies-inside-the-jail/
My cdist-jexec connection plugin scripts: https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/jexec-cdist
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/116245208451246991
daemonless – <https://daemonless.io/> @ahze
― a collection of FreeBSD-native OCI images that run directly on the FreeBSD kernel. It combines the power and security of Jails with the modern container ecosystem—compatible with Podman, AppJail, or any OCI-compliant runtime. No Linux virtual machines or overhead required.
#OCI #FreeBSD #jails #containers #PodMan #AppJail #Linux
― via <https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1pw7kbs/introducing_daemonlessio_native_freebsd_oci/> (2025),<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rw9o7h/daemonless_native_freebsd_oci_containers_jails/> (March 2026), and Lobsters.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@hyphatech/116296976647581153
Back to FreeBSD: Part 2 — Jails
Via <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1s4gk0m/back_to_freebsd_part_2_jails/>
＂This time we compare an LXC container and a FreeBSD jail side by side — same goal but different approaches.
Very much opinionated post about jail managers and the ongoing trend to mimic Docker look and feel.＂
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⚡️ Part 1 clearly struck a nerve. Part 2 is out! https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-2
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Most of our work consists of sending books to individuals who are incarcerated, choosing books of personal interest to the individual. There are other programs that instead focus on stocking #jail and prison libraries (which can be as small as a single bookcase or book cart). One of those programs, Pages of Redemption in #Washington state, just made the news for delivering 2,000 books to #jails in Benton, Franklin, Walla Walla and Yakima counties:
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Running a FreeBSD server with two independent uplinks?
My latest deep dive covers how to mix a physical provider and a BGP tunnel to serve NAT'd, routed, and pure public jail traffic on a single bridge.
We break down Dual-FIB policy routing and show you how to use PF's rtable and reply-to directives to fix asymmetric routing and keep traffic strictly separated.
Policy routing done right: https://blog.hofstede.it/dual-fib-policy-routing-on-freebsd-two-upstreams-one-server-zero-confusion/
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Nevada Current: Incarcerated individuals boycott digital devices to protest high costs. “People incarcerated in Nevada’s prisons plan to boycott the use of handheld digital tablets in an effort to rein in high costs associated with using those devices.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/10/nevada-current-incarcerated-individuals-boycott-digital-devices-to-protest-high-costs/ -
The naming poll for the NetBSD isolation project is now closed - and I think the result speaks for itself. 😉
Thanks to everyone who participated and shared thoughts in the discussion. The feedback from the BSD community has been really helpful.
I’ll take a bit of time to digest the results and the comments before making a final decision.
More updates soon - stay tuned.
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I’ve been following the discussions about the name of my NetBSD project ("Jails for NetBSD") across a few platforms over the past days and really appreciate the thoughtful feedback.
The short version: the current prototype is probably closer to a cell or a cage than a strict jail, so the name might indeed not be perfect. The project originally started as an experiment inspired by FreeBSD jails, but while exploring NetBSD internals it evolved into something slightly different: controlled process isolation built around the secmodel framework, a different approach for the tool chain and configuration, and without resource limits and network virtualization.
Because of that, I’m open to renaming the project at this stage.
I’ve attached a small poll with a few candidate names — please vote if you like.
And if the right name isn’t listed yet, feel free to drop suggestions in the comments 🙂Project site: https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/
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NetBSD introduces "Jails"—because who wouldn't want their beloved #OS to also moonlight as a prison warden? 🔒🤪 Now you can enjoy kernel-enforced solitary confinement for your #processes, because apparently, chroot needed a gym membership. 💪📦
https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/ #NetBSD #Jails #Security #Kernel #Enforced #Tech #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
NetBSD introduces "Jails"—because who wouldn't want their beloved #OS to also moonlight as a prison warden? 🔒🤪 Now you can enjoy kernel-enforced solitary confinement for your #processes, because apparently, chroot needed a gym membership. 💪📦
https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/ #NetBSD #Jails #Security #Kernel #Enforced #Tech #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
NetBSD introduces "Jails"—because who wouldn't want their beloved #OS to also moonlight as a prison warden? 🔒🤪 Now you can enjoy kernel-enforced solitary confinement for your #processes, because apparently, chroot needed a gym membership. 💪📦
https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/ #NetBSD #Jails #Security #Kernel #Enforced #Tech #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
NetBSD introduces "Jails"—because who wouldn't want their beloved #OS to also moonlight as a prison warden? 🔒🤪 Now you can enjoy kernel-enforced solitary confinement for your #processes, because apparently, chroot needed a gym membership. 💪📦
https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/ #NetBSD #Jails #Security #Kernel #Enforced #Tech #Humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control
https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/
#HackerNews #NetBSD #Jails #Kernel #Isolation #Resource #Control #Technology
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Palestinian Women Arrested to Bait Their Relatives Israel Labels as “Wanted”
This practice falls under the category of collective punishment, which is prohibited under international law. -
Palestinian Women Arrested to Bait Their Relatives Israel Labels as “Wanted”
This practice falls under the category of collective punishment, which is prohibited under international law. -
Loophole in Illinois Sanctuary Laws Lets ICE Hold Immigrants in County Jails
Illinois is a sanctuary state — but 17 of the state’s counties still have contracts to detain immigrants for ICE. -
Loophole in Illinois Sanctuary Laws Lets ICE Hold Immigrants in County Jails
Illinois is a sanctuary state — but 17 of the state’s counties still have contracts to detain immigrants for ICE. -
Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration
The Trump administration’s attacks on journalists have a side effect: further exposing the violence of prisons.https://murica.website/2026/02/journalists-jailed-by-ice-are-revealing-the-horrors-of-incarceration/
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Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration
The Trump administration’s attacks on journalists have a side effect: further exposing the violence of prisons.https://murica.website/2026/02/journalists-jailed-by-ice-are-revealing-the-horrors-of-incarceration/
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Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration
The Trump administration’s attacks on journalists have a side effect: further exposing the violence of prisons.https://murica.website/2026/02/journalists-jailed-by-ice-are-revealing-the-horrors-of-incarceration/
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VT Digger: Vermont jails publish immigrant detainee data. “Vermont correctional facilities have held more than 900 detainees apprehended by federal immigration authorities since January 2025, according to new data released by the Vermont Department of Corrections Friday.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/08/vt-digger-vermont-jails-publish-immigrant-detainee-data/ -
#USMilitary Helping #Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘#ConcentrationCamps,’ #Navy Contract Reveals
The #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert #warehouses into makeshift #jails and plan sprawling #TentCities in remote areas.
Stephen Prager, Feb 02, 2026
Excerpt: "According to a source familiar with the project, 'the goal is for the facilities to house as many as 10,000 people each, and are expected to be built in #Louisiana, #Georgia, #Pennsylvania, #Indiana, #Utah, and #Kansas.'
"Now Manríquez reports that the project has just gotten much bigger after a Navy grant was repurposed weeks ago. It was authorized through the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC), a flexible purchasing system that the government uses to quickly move military equipment to dangerous and remote parts of the world.
"The contract states that the money is being repurposed for '#TITUS,' an abbreviation for 'Territorial Integrity of the United States.' While it’s not unusual for Navy contracts to be used for expenditures aimed at protecting the nation, Manríquez warned that such a staggering movement of funds for domestic detention points to something ominous. "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps#USPol #DetentionCenters #PrivatePrisons #Authoritarianism #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #SilencingDissent #SilencingDissent #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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#USMilitary Helping #Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘#ConcentrationCamps,’ #Navy Contract Reveals
The #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert #warehouses into makeshift #jails and plan sprawling #TentCities in remote areas.
Stephen Prager, Feb 02, 2026
Excerpt: "According to a source familiar with the project, 'the goal is for the facilities to house as many as 10,000 people each, and are expected to be built in #Louisiana, #Georgia, #Pennsylvania, #Indiana, #Utah, and #Kansas.'
"Now Manríquez reports that the project has just gotten much bigger after a Navy grant was repurposed weeks ago. It was authorized through the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC), a flexible purchasing system that the government uses to quickly move military equipment to dangerous and remote parts of the world.
"The contract states that the money is being repurposed for '#TITUS,' an abbreviation for 'Territorial Integrity of the United States.' While it’s not unusual for Navy contracts to be used for expenditures aimed at protecting the nation, Manríquez warned that such a staggering movement of funds for domestic detention points to something ominous. "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps#USPol #DetentionCenters #PrivatePrisons #Authoritarianism #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #SilencingDissent #SilencingDissent #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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#USMilitary Helping #Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘#ConcentrationCamps,’ #Navy Contract Reveals
The #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert #warehouses into makeshift #jails and plan sprawling #TentCities in remote areas.
Stephen Prager, Feb 02, 2026
Excerpt: "According to a source familiar with the project, 'the goal is for the facilities to house as many as 10,000 people each, and are expected to be built in #Louisiana, #Georgia, #Pennsylvania, #Indiana, #Utah, and #Kansas.'
"Now Manríquez reports that the project has just gotten much bigger after a Navy grant was repurposed weeks ago. It was authorized through the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC), a flexible purchasing system that the government uses to quickly move military equipment to dangerous and remote parts of the world.
"The contract states that the money is being repurposed for '#TITUS,' an abbreviation for 'Territorial Integrity of the United States.' While it’s not unusual for Navy contracts to be used for expenditures aimed at protecting the nation, Manríquez warned that such a staggering movement of funds for domestic detention points to something ominous. "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps#USPol #DetentionCenters #PrivatePrisons #Authoritarianism #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #SilencingDissent #SilencingDissent #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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#USMilitary Helping #Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘#ConcentrationCamps,’ #Navy Contract Reveals
The #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert #warehouses into makeshift #jails and plan sprawling #TentCities in remote areas.
Stephen Prager, Feb 02, 2026
Excerpt: "According to a source familiar with the project, 'the goal is for the facilities to house as many as 10,000 people each, and are expected to be built in #Louisiana, #Georgia, #Pennsylvania, #Indiana, #Utah, and #Kansas.'
"Now Manríquez reports that the project has just gotten much bigger after a Navy grant was repurposed weeks ago. It was authorized through the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC), a flexible purchasing system that the government uses to quickly move military equipment to dangerous and remote parts of the world.
"The contract states that the money is being repurposed for '#TITUS,' an abbreviation for 'Territorial Integrity of the United States.' While it’s not unusual for Navy contracts to be used for expenditures aimed at protecting the nation, Manríquez warned that such a staggering movement of funds for domestic detention points to something ominous. "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps#USPol #DetentionCenters #PrivatePrisons #Authoritarianism #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #SilencingDissent #SilencingDissent #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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#USMilitary Helping #Trump to Build Massive Network of ‘#ConcentrationCamps,’ #Navy Contract Reveals
The #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert #warehouses into makeshift #jails and plan sprawling #TentCities in remote areas.
Stephen Prager, Feb 02, 2026
Excerpt: "According to a source familiar with the project, 'the goal is for the facilities to house as many as 10,000 people each, and are expected to be built in #Louisiana, #Georgia, #Pennsylvania, #Indiana, #Utah, and #Kansas.'
"Now Manríquez reports that the project has just gotten much bigger after a Navy grant was repurposed weeks ago. It was authorized through the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC), a flexible purchasing system that the government uses to quickly move military equipment to dangerous and remote parts of the world.
"The contract states that the money is being repurposed for '#TITUS,' an abbreviation for 'Territorial Integrity of the United States.' While it’s not unusual for Navy contracts to be used for expenditures aimed at protecting the nation, Manríquez warned that such a staggering movement of funds for domestic detention points to something ominous. "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps#USPol #DetentionCenters #PrivatePrisons #Authoritarianism #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #SilencingDissent #SilencingDissent #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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Can you use a #freebsd vnet jail over WiFi? Tried to follow the handbook and created a bridge and epair. But I saw 2 blogs/comments that said that doesn't work.
Somewhere else said to use NAT? My goal was to have the host use wireguard on the host and have a jail that bypasses that and uses wlan0. But I can't seem to get a basic vnet jail working.
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I know how most of you feel about WaPo, but I go by the journalists’ records of journalistic integrity. It’s hard to get a job as an investigative reporter. Also this is an exclusive … so, #GiftArticle
#Trump admin #jails #immigrant #teens in facility known for #ChildAbuse
#law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildSexCrimes #SexualAssault #rape #StateSponsoredAbduction #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #HumanitarianLaw #ICE #CBP #WhiteSupremacy
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I know how most of you feel about WaPo, but I go by the journalists’ records of journalistic integrity. It’s hard to get a job as an investigative reporter. Also this is an exclusive … so, #GiftArticle
#Trump admin #jails #immigrant #teens in facility known for #ChildAbuse
#law #immigration #ChildEndangerment #ChildSexCrimes #SexualAssault #rape #StateSponsoredAbduction #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #HumanitarianLaw #ICE #CBP #WhiteSupremacy
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I’m almost at the point of just installing the relevant software on the bare metal host (already doing email…) like it’s 1999 and I only have one box.
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On Thursday, @gyptazy provided a talk about #BoxyBSD at the "Virtualization Gathering" at @credativde.
@gyptazy provided some more information about the BoxyBSD project, but also about the history and infrastructure including the switches of #FreeBSD #Jails, #bhyve and #Proxmox (#kvm). Afterwards, additional information about the #Sylve project were shared and why this is so important and interesting and could make BoxyBSD return to bhyve based #virtualization.
Slides: https://cdn.gyptazy.com/talks/BoxyBSD_Virtualization_Hypervisor_bhyve_Proxmox_credativ_gyptazy.pdf
Recording: https://peertube.gyptazy.com/w/2HtUv9HFBNEU4sEw52bD8H -
I'm using Bastille to run jails on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE.
Does it matter (to Bastille) if I use templates, or can I just manually apply the setup from a template's Bastillefile?
Bastillefile example:
https://github.com/BastilleBSD/templates/blob/main/databases/mariadb-server/Bastillefile
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DOJ Plans to End Sexual Violence Protections for Incarcerated LGBTQIA+ People
The proposed changes would impact many adult prisons and jails, juvenile facilities, and halfway houses. -
DOJ Plans to End Sexual Violence Protections for Incarcerated LGBTQIA+ People
The proposed changes would impact many adult prisons and jails, juvenile facilities, and halfway houses. -
DOJ Plans to End Sexual Violence Protections for Incarcerated LGBTQIA+ People
The proposed changes would impact many adult prisons and jails, juvenile facilities, and halfway houses.
