[linux-help] Re: 'chroot' help.

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need to do this first:

mkdir /tmp/bin
cp /bin/sh /tmp/bin

chroot attempts to exececute /bin/sh relative to /tmp.  Unless you copy it
there first, chroot cannot find /bin/sh, and gives that error message.


On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:25:31PM +0000, Wang Min wrote:
> Dear fellows,
> 
> I am testing the chroot function, I think 'man chroot' talking about
> nothing, I test the following commands 'chroot /tmp /bin/sh', the error is
> 'chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or directory', as a matter
> of fact, there is bin, sbin, usr, usr/sbin...sub-directory in /tmp, and
> there are the appropriate files in the directories, what should I do to
> implement chroot? Thanks.
> 
> Wang
> 
> 
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