Tom Horsley wrote I've been experimenting with chroot to switch to an alternate root partition and "do stuff" without actually having to reboot to that alternate OS. I see that none of the special filesystems seem to be created as part of the ordinary chroot command, yet things like the bind-chroot rpm does manage to create a more complete environment for named to run in (with populated /dev and /proc and wot-not). Is there a handy tool somewhere to duplicate all the special filesystems in a chroot environment? Or should I just look at bind-chroot in more detail and steal what it does? ---- Tom, the following works for me; it may not be all you are looking for re "complete" before chrooting to /corni which holds an alternate old rh8 install I run the following three-line script [root@bootp ~]# cat mount_corni #!/bin/bash mount --bind /tmp /corni/tmp xhost local:localhost [root@bootp ~]# that xhost line allows me to run X applications a year or so ago there was an exchange on this llist between me and Gilboa on this subject. He had an alternateemethod for getting X to work hope thiis helps Jack Jack Byers byersj@xxxxxxxxxxx _________________________________________________________________ Don't get caught with egg on your face. Play Chicktionary! http://club.live.com/chicktionary.aspx?icid=chick_wlhmtextlink1_dec
