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ajay-iht 11-20-2010 01:51 AM
what is chroot?
 
what is chroot?

repo 11-20-2010 02:38 AM
Hi,

Welcome to LQ
Take a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroot

Kind regards

sag47 11-20-2010 02:48 AM
I've used it to customize live CDs to my liking.

divyashree 11-20-2010 02:48 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ajay-iht (Post 4165114)
what is chroot?
Chroot makes the root directory (/) become something other than its default for the lifetime of the current process. It can only be run by privileged users and is used to give a process (commonly a network server such as FTP or HTTP) access to a restricted portion of the file system.

Mr. Alex 11-20-2010 03:06 AM
http://linux.about.com/cs/linux101/g/chroot.htm

honeybadger 11-20-2010 03:08 AM
whereis chroot, go to the man pages and read them. For techinal indepth please refer to info chroot.

jdkaye 11-20-2010 03:08 AM
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jdkaye 11-20-2010 03:10 AM
In the old days at the dawn of the 64bit era, it was used to run 32bit programs in a 64bit OS.
jdk

Aquarius_Girl 11-20-2010 03:13 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverBack (Post 4165159)
whereis chroot, go to the man pages and read them. For techinal indepth please refer to info chroot.
No offense intended, that might not be helpful since OP might not know that "whereis" and "info" are commands, he may read your post as a plain English statement.

@Ajay,
Code:
anisha@linux-uitj:~> whereis chroot
chroot: /usr/bin/chroot /usr/bin/X11/chroot /usr/share/man/man2/chroot.2.gz /usr/share/man/man1/chroot.1.gz
anisha@linux-uitj:~> info chroot

honeybadger 11-28-2010 03:20 PM
Oops sorry anisha. I just was thinking the man or the info pages would give him more explanation than we could.


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