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

[Wang Min <wangmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Sir,
I've already done that, I did it by 'cp -a /bin/sh /tmp/bin' (I think I should 
do a -a because 'sh' is a linked file), it still gives that error message, I 
want to know what I have done wrong.
Regards.

Wang
----- Original Message -----
>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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