Virtualmin now asking about chroot jails

I got proftp running aso when i did a configuration check i got this at the bottom: Chroot jails are not available : The Jailkit command jk_init was not found on your system - maybe the packet is not installed?

how do i fix this?

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

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Howdy -- that's just an informational message, and doesn't indicate a problem of any kind. It's safe to ignore.

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Submitted by Joe on Tue, 07/11/2017 - 19:11 Pro Licensee

That refers to chroot jails for ssh logins; it is not related to the proftpd chroot feature at all.

jailkit is in the Virtualmin repos for current generation distributions, and can be installed, if you want to use chroot jail ssh features. Just install the "jailkit" package, and optionally the "wbm-jailkit" package if you want a Webmin module for managing jail configuration files (Virtualmin doesn't need the Webmin module to function).

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Submitted by Joe on Tue, 07/11/2017 - 19:29 Pro Licensee

Status: Active » Fixed

I've added more clear help text for the message for the next release of Virtualmin. Future versions will say, "The Jailkit command $1 was not found on your system - maybe the jailkit package is not installed?"

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

@Joe - how can I install wbm-jailkit package? When I try to install it from Terminal as "apt install wbm-jailkit" is says "E: Unable to locate package wbm-jailkit".