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

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did the linked file get copied as well, or just the link?  (ls -la /tmp/bin)

I'm guessing it did not...

Try:  cp /bin/bash /tmp/bin
then: chroot /tmp /bin/bash


On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 11:34:56PM +0000, Wang Min wrote:
> 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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