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Kris Moore | 5 Apr 2009 14:37

Re: Installing the warden and its inmates


In the gui, simply right-click the jail you want to use and select "install inmate". It'll ask you for the
.wit file at that point.

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From: USM Bish
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Subject: [PC-BSD Support] Installing the warden and its inmates
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I wanted to get an AMP  environment into place quickly, and in
the process  downloaded the Warden  pbi (Ver 0.9.1  for PC-BSD
7.x) and an associated warden inmate (Joomla1.5.8.wit).

The TheWarden0.9.1-PV0.pbi installed just fine, and I was able
to set up a new jail  with port tree included. However I could
not find  a method  of installing the  AMP modules  within the
jail.  As per  the documentation,  on the  site "This  package
requires "The Warden" to install & run", I did precisely that,
and tried  to "import"  this package into  the jail  using the
warden.

The  issue  is,  the  "warden"   looks  for  ".wdn"  file  for
installation, and  the one I have  is a ".wit" file,  which it
fails to recognise.

How do I populate the jail with the inmates ?

Bish
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USM Bish | 5 Apr 2009 17:06
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Re: Installing the warden and its inmates

Kris Moore wrote:
 >
 > In the gui, simply right-click the  jail you want to use and
 > select "install inmate". It'll ask  you for the .wit file at
 > that point.
 >

Thanks  Kris, this  did it.  Looks  silly to  have spent  time
trying to find out as to how to proceed. This ".wdn" thing put
me off track,  otherwise would have experimented  with a right
click. I am not very GUI saavy :-(

How  do I  do  it from  the  command  line ?  I  am much  more
comfortable from  the console  rather than this  GUI approach,
where I really cannot make out what is going on !

Where can the docs for jails/ wardens/ inmates be found ?

Thanks again ...

Bish
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Kris Moore | 6 Apr 2009 17:06

Re: Installing the warden and its inmates

USM Bish wrote:
> Kris Moore wrote:
>  >
>  > In the gui, simply right-click the  jail you want to use and
>  > select "install inmate". It'll ask  you for the .wit file at
>  > that point.
>  >
> 
> Thanks  Kris, this  did it.  Looks  silly to  have spent  time
> trying to find out as to how to proceed. This ".wdn" thing put
> me off track,  otherwise would have experimented  with a right
> click. I am not very GUI saavy :-(
> 
> How  do I  do  it from  the  command  line ?  I  am much  more
> comfortable from  the console  rather than this  GUI approach,
> where I really cannot make out what is going on !
> 
> Where can the docs for jails/ wardens/ inmates be found ?
> 
> Thanks again ...
> 
> Bish
> 
> 

Bish,

There should be a "warden" command you can run via the CLI, and you can 
run "warden menu" to bring up a small dialog-based menu system as well. 
You can run "warden" by itself for a listing of commands, and then
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USM Bish | 6 Apr 2009 18:56
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Re: Installing the warden and its inmates

Kris Moore wrote:
 > USM Bish wrote:
 >>
[ some snipped ]
 >>
 >> How do  I do  it from  the command  line ?  I am  much more
 >> comfortable from the console rather than this GUI approach,
 >> where I really cannot make out what is going on !
 >>
 >> Where can the docs for jails/ wardens/ inmates be found ?
 >>
 >
 > There  should be  a "warden"  command  you can  run via  the
 > CLI,  and you  can run  "warden menu"  to bring  up a  small
 > dialog-based menu  system as well.  You can run  "warden" by
 > itself  for a  listing of  commands, and  then "warden  help
 > <command>"  for  more  specific information.  As  for  docs,
 > its  still  on my  todo  list,  I  plan  on adding  them  to
 > wiki.pcbsd.org over the summer :)
 >

Eureka ! Kris,  this was specifically what I  was looking for.
Now it is a matter  of experimentation and finding out things.
Learnt a few  things already, and being  without docs actually
makes things interesting ;-) Lets see what all unfurls !

Would be waiting for your docs ...

Incidentally, I have ventured to your  wiki pages on one of my
web  sojourns earlier.  This is  still  in its  infancy (?  on
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Kris Moore | 7 Apr 2009 19:09

Re: Installing the warden and its inmates

USM Bish wrote:
> Kris Moore wrote:
>  > USM Bish wrote:
>  >>
> [ some snipped ]
>  >>
>  >> How do  I do  it from  the command  line ?  I am  much more
>  >> comfortable from the console rather than this GUI approach,
>  >> where I really cannot make out what is going on !
>  >>
>  >> Where can the docs for jails/ wardens/ inmates be found ?
>  >>
>  >
>  > There  should be  a "warden"  command  you can  run via  the
>  > CLI,  and you  can run  "warden menu"  to bring  up a  small
>  > dialog-based menu  system as well.  You can run  "warden" by
>  > itself  for a  listing of  commands, and  then "warden  help
>  > <command>"  for  more  specific information.  As  for  docs,
>  > its  still  on my  todo  list,  I  plan  on adding  them  to
>  > wiki.pcbsd.org over the summer :)
>  >
> 
> Eureka ! Kris,  this was specifically what I  was looking for.
> Now it is a matter  of experimentation and finding out things.
> Learnt a few  things already, and being  without docs actually
> makes things interesting ;-) Lets see what all unfurls !
> 
> Would be waiting for your docs ...
> 
> Incidentally, I have ventured to your  wiki pages on one of my
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USM Bish | 6 Apr 2009 20:01
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Adobe Acrobat 8.1.4 in Linux Compatibility Mode

In the  process of  learning things,  I installed  the current
linux binary of Adobe Acrobat  Ver 8.1.4 as the first exercise
in running linux  compatibility mode. Yes, I  did the required
RTFM and  installed it within the  /compat/linux tree. Getting
it off the blocks needed some alterations though. This is what
I was faced with a strange message (quoted here for the humour
aspect):

bish <at> pcbsd$ acroread
The OS named  FreeBSD version 7.1-PRERELEASE  is currently not 
installed.Try running on an installed platform and connecting to your 
display.
Installed platform(s) include the following:
   Intel/Linux
bish <at> pcbsd$

How can you quote an OS which is not running/ installed ?

Fortunately,  acroread  is  a  shell script  wrapper  for  the
binary,  and the  use of  the /compat/linux  shell instead  of
using the FreeBSD shell did  the trick.  I changed the shabang
from  "#!/bin/sh" to  "#!/compat/linux/bin/sh". Cheers,  I had
acrobat  running  ...  Well,  almost. This  version  of  Linux
Acrobat depends  upon libgtkembedmoz for HTML  rendering, so a
few functions do not work, like some "Help" options. PDF rend-
ering worked just fine.

libgtkembedmoz used to be a portion of firefox-2.x.x but seems
to be  missing in version  3 of firefox installed  with PC-BSD
7.0.x.  It  should be  there  in  SeaMonkey. Is  this  library
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