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Port details

sysutils/qjail 5.5_1

Utility to quickly deploy and manage jails

Port info

Maintainer
qjail1@a1poweruser.com
Packages
latest: 5.5_1
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 5.5_1 · e4610fcb8b
Quarterly
2026Q4: 5.5_1
WWW
https://qjail.sourceforge.net/
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install qjail
installs 5.5_1 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 5.5_1
Port
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/qjail && make install clean
Size
80 KiB download · 323 KiB installed
Depends on
nothing
License
BERNE-CONVENTION
pkg-message
Shown after installing
Use the qjail utility to deploy small or large numbers of jails quickly.

First issue "rehash" command to enable the qjail command (if using csh).
Then issue
"man qjail-intro" To read the qjail introduction.
"man qjail"       For qjail usage details.
"man qjail-drive-traffic For example of driving public traffic to jails.
"man qjail-vnet-howto"   For example of creating vnet jails.
"man qjail-ipv6-testing" For example of testing jails with ipv6 addresses.

Packages by version and architecture

latest

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 165.5_15.5_1–
FreeBSD 155.5_15.5_1–
FreeBSD 145.5_15.5_15.5_1

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 155.5_15.5_1–
FreeBSD 145.5_15.5_15.5_1

version as in the ports tree (latest) or the most common one (quarterly) · different version · ✗ not built · – no packages for this platform. Package sets that have not been rebuilt for 60 days are left out.

Unaddressed and VuXML only (0)

No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 5.5_1.

Fixed (0)

No VuXML entries for this package.

Problem reports (2) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

PRSummaryStatusChanged
277911maintainer-feedback? sysutils/qjail: error on which architecture FreeBSD is running on during qjail installNew2024-03-24
275103maintainer-feedback? sysutils/qjail can't attach jail console on RELEASE/14New2023-11-29

Commits (61)

Chris Rees (crees) · 1.8
Update to 1.8

uname -r shows 4 formats.
9.0-BETA1, 9.0-RC1, 9.0-RELEASE, and 9.0-RELEASE-p1
Logic added by 1.7 was supposed to correctly remove the -p1 string,
which it did if present, but if not present the -RELEASE gets removed
in error which results in the incorrect ftp url path for fetching the
install source.

Rewrote logic to handle -p suffix differently so it gets stripped
off leaving 9.0-RELEASE which is handled normally.

PR:		ports/174037
Submitted by:	Joe Barbish <qjail@a1poweruser.com> (maintainer)
Feature safe:	yes
2054dc76b4
Chris Rees (crees) · 1.7
Update to 1.7

On 'qjail install' command run on -BETA or -RC host has no binary distribution source available by design. Added logic to check for this condition and issue error message informing user.

On 'qjail install' command run on a host that has had security binary patches applied results in [uname -r] command returning [Release-9.0-p3]. There is no binary distribution source available by design for patched systems. Added code to strip the -p3 suffix resulting in the 9.0-Release distribution source being downloaded and used to populate the basejail.

PR:		ports/173394
Submitted by:	Joe Barbish (maintainer)
Feature safe:	yes
cb1d8d8183
Chris Rees (crees) · 1.6
Update to 1.6

-a option means create new jail from archive file of jail-aaa.
Search of /usr/jails/archive selected incorrect archive file.
If archive files named jail-aaa, jail-aaa-bbb, jail-aaa-bbb-ccc were present
jail-aaa-bbb-ccc was always selected incorrectly.
This same logic was also used for 'qjail restore jail-aaa', but that logic
had check for this condition that told user to use full archive name that
included the date stamp archive was created.  Fixed logic in both functions.

PR:		ports/171724
Submitted by:	maintainer (Joe Barbish <qjail@a1poweruser.com>)
babf2b70f5
Alex Kozlov (ak) · 1.5
- Update to 1.5

PR:	ports/170012
Submitted by:	Joe Barbish <qjail@a1poweruser.com> (maintainer)
304a5dd4ee
Jase Thew (jase) · 1.4
- Update to 1.4

PR:		ports/169466
Submitted by:	Joe Barbish <qjail@a1poweruser.com> (maintainer)
Approved by:	culot (mentor)
5caf5b5931
Chris Rees (crees) · 1.3
Restore missing newline

Submitted by:	ak
8cb7f7fecd
Chris Rees (crees) · 1.3
Update to 1.3;

Updated script so that the perluglyhack code is added to the end of
  qjail update -b logic

PR:		ports/166666
PR:		ports/166917
Submitted by:	Joe Barbish (maintainer)
9f446cd395
Jason Helfman (jgh) · 1.2
- Update to 1.2 - while here loop on install of man pages

Changed qjail to work with new path and single base
file install format now used in 9.0.

PR:	ports/165603
Submitted by:	maintainer, qjail@a1poweruser.com
ccde3be43e
Chris Rees (crees) · 1.1_1
Author silently changed distfile to correct manpage typos, chase distinfo.

PR:		ports/160645
Submitted by:	Joe Barbish <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> (maintainer)
7253ee6f25
Dennis Herrmann (dhn) · 1.1
- Update to 1.1

PR:		ports/160574
Submitted by:	Joe barbish <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> (maintainer)
ce6103708f
Chris Rees (crees) · 1.0
Qjail [ q = quick ] is a 4th generation wrapper for the basic chroot jail system that includes security and performance enhancements. Plus a new level of "user friendliness" enhancements dealing with deploying just a few jails or large jail environments consisting of 100's of jails.

Qjail requires no knowledge of the jail command usage. It uses "nullfs" for
read-only system binaries, sharing one copy of them with all the jails.

Uses "mdconfig" to create sparse image jails. Sparse image jails provide a
method to limit the total disk space a jail can consume, while only occupying
the physical disk space of the sum size of the files in the image jail.

Ability to assign ip address with their network device name,
so aliases are auto created on jail start and auto removed on jail stop.

Ability to create "ZONE"s of identical qjail systems, each with their own
group of jails.

Ability to designate a portion of the jail name as a group prefix so the
command being executed will apply to only those jail names matching that prefix.

WWW:        http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjail/
            http://qjail.sourceforge.net/

PR:		ports/148777
Submitted by:	Joe Barbish <joeb@a1poweruser.com>
Approved by:	rene (mentor)
7b182efc57