[Wolves] oops :)

Andy Wootton andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk
Tue Mar 6 00:23:54 GMT 2007


chris procter wrote:
> So I've been playing around with chroot etc
>
> I created a directory mkdir ~/test
> Created a mount point mkdir ~/test/bin
>
> then mounted /bin on it using 
> mount --bind /bin ~/test/bin
>
> (The --bind option to mount lets you mount an existing
> directory in another place, so /bin and ~/test/bin are
> now two references to the same thing)
>
> I tinkered around with chroot for a while (which I
> couldn't get to work, but thats another story)
> including installing creating some files as root, then
> gave up and removed the lot:
> sudo rm -rf ~/test
>
> Spot the minor flaw?
> ...
>
> chris
>   
I once knew the commands to achieve exactly the same effect on VMS.

Chris, sorry I missed you when you dropped in the other week. Thanks for 
the good work.

Woo



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