On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 20:28 +0200, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > El Viernes, 14 de Septiembre de 2007 20:26, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez escribió: > > El Viernes, 14 de Septiembre de 2007 19:53, Mike McCarty escribió: > > > Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: > > > > El Viernes, 14 de Septiembre de 2007 19:25, Mike McCarty escribió: > > > >>I'm interested in learning the ins and outs of setting up a > > > >>chroot environment for "native cross development". IOW, I'd > > > >>like to run another version of Linux in a chroot environment > > > >>on my same discs. The information on chroot is, ummm, sparse. > > > >> > > > >>Could someone please point me to some tutorial information? > > > >> > > > >>The web searches I've done get many many hits, which are not > > > >>very useful. > > > > > > > > Hi Mike, > > > > Well I wrote a manual some months ago about how to jail users, so they > > > > only could use the commands you let them, and obvilusly they cannot > > > > scape from /home/user > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, the manual is in spanish, sooo, I guess I could write > > > > down the basics steps for you in english if you're interested. > > > > If so, let me know > > > > > > > > All the best. > > > > Manuel > > > > > > Bueno, ya que espanol es mi primer lengua, quiza seria mejor > > > mandarme el URL :-) > > > > Vaya, que sorpresa!!! :-) > > > > > Actually, I speak English better, but Spanish was first. > > > > You should practise it and help us to defeat the English as the > > international language! :-) > > > > > Anyway, thanks! Either will do. I might struggle with > > > some vocabulary with Spanish, but that's what dictionaries > > > are for. > > > > Here you are the link, it's an approach, but I think it will be a good > > start for what you want. > > If you don't understand something, either about the chroot or the language, > > let know! > > > > I forgot the link! > Sorry! > > http://www.todo-linux.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2485 > > Cheers > Manuel > -- > Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. > > Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not > be used for urgent or sensitive issues. > If you want to jail users, than IMO the best way is jailkit :) (http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/howtos_chroot_shell.html) If you want to run linux in an chrooted environment, I think you should have a look at UML (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ ) or LFS (linux from scratch). The LFS manual has very good instructions on how to create an chrooted environment for linux HTH, Calin ================================================= This report is filled with omissions.
