Hm iam newbie and i need help.Iam trying to set up at a server that will handle web,ftp,sql some day .Now i have a RH 7.0,latest Apache and the latest WU-FTP.How do i chroot a user for ftp and web? this is driving me crazy,i haved tried for about 2 days and iam still not capable to chroot.Plz help me...

Try installing Webmin. It's a GUI for Apache, as well as other system operations. http://www.webmin.com I hear it works wonders......!

The way I setup a chroot is usually the following:

#setup a base directory and install xxx into it
mkdir /chroot/xxx
tar xzf|configure|make|make install xxx

#Find out library depends for binaries
ldd /chroot/xxx/bin/* /chroot/xxx/sbin/*

#Copy the libs over
cp /lib/<neededlibs> /usr/lib/<neededlibs> /chroot/{usr/}lib

#_TEMPORARILY_ copy sh (or the shell you prefer...) into the chroot env..
cp /bin/sh /chroot/xxx

#now enter the chroot env.
chroot /chroot/xxx /bin/sh

Now you're in your chrooted env, and you can try to start xxx. Try to start it with as much logging and debugging as possible, cuz this is likely to break the first time you use it.... Now you need to tweak xxx to run in the chroot...

Once you get the daemon to successfully run in the chroot, you can do something like chroot /chroot/xxx /sbin/xxx & from an rc scritp to start the daemon...

don't forget to rm -f that shell you left in the chroot!!!!