1.\" 2.\"---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.\""THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42): 4.\"<phk@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you 5.\"can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think 6.\"this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return. Poul-Henning Kamp 7.\"---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.\" 9.\"$Id: jail.8,v 1.2 1999/05/04 18:20:53 phk Exp $ 10.\" 11.\" 12.Dd April 28, 1999 13.Dt JAIL 8 14.Os FreeBSD 4.0 15.Sh NAME 16.Nm jail 17.Nd imprison process and its descendants 18.Sh SYNOPSIS 19.Nm jail 20.Ar path 21.Ar hostname 22.Ar ip-number 23.Ar command 24.Ar ... 25.Sh DESCRIPTION 26The 27.Nm 28command imprisons a process and all future decendants. 29.Pp 30Please see the 31.Xr jail 2 32man page for further details. 33.Sh SEE ALSO 34.Xr chroot 2 , 35.Xr jail 2 36.Sh HISTORY 37The 38.Fn jail 39function call appeared in 40.Fx 4.0 . 41.Pp 42The jail feature was written by Poul-Henning Kamp for 43R&D Associates 44.Dq Li http://www.rndassociates.com/ 45who contributed it to FreeBSD. 46