Bug 24458 – chroot don't change root directory ?

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Bug 24458 - chroot don't change root directory ?

Summary:	chroot don't change root directory ?

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	sh-utils (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	bero
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2001-01-20 12:28 EST by Laurent
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:30 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-01-20 12:28:59 EST
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Description Laurent 2001-01-20 12:28:56 EST

Here is an example of what I do:
# cd /some/where
# cp /bin/bash bin/
# ls -l bin/
# -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       512540 jan 20 16:41 bash
# chroot /some/where
# chroot: cannot execute /bin/bash: No such file or directory
#whoami
root

I don't understand, /bin/bash exist and is executable,
with FreeBSD I do that without a problem

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-01-20 12:50:41 EST

This is almost certainly a user mistake:
Our shell is linked dynamically.
Make sure /lib/ld-linux.so.2, /lib/libc.so.6, /lib/libdl.so.2 and
/lib/libtermcap.so.2
are in the chroot structure. Without them, bash can't be executed.

Alternatively, recompile bash with the "-static" CFLAG. This is what the BSDs do
to their shells.

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