what is chroot?

ajay-iht · 11-20-2010, 01:51 AM

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

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

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.