It would be nice if #FreeBSD #jail configuration file had some sort of "autostart=<yes|no>" option for fine grain enabling/disabling jails. Rather than maintaining the list of all "to run" jails into jail_list. Or maybe I missed something in the docs...

@joel It is possible to start manually a #FreeBSD jail that is not listed in /etc/rc.conf jail_list by issuing:

# service jail start $jail

@piero I know, but that's not what I want. Anyway, I went the dirty way and rename the config file so that it is not include as *.conf.