Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271386AbTHDFv5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 01:51:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271388AbTHDFv5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 01:51:57 -0400 Received: from bristol.phunnypharm.org ([65.207.35.130]:57314 "EHLO bristol.phunnypharm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271386AbTHDFv4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2003 01:51:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 01:34:38 -0400 From: Ben Collins To: Steven Micallef Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: chroot() breaks syslog() ? Message-ID: <20030804053438.GC31092@phunnypharm.org> References: <6416776FCC55D511BC4E0090274EFEF5080024AC@exchange.world.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6416776FCC55D511BC4E0090274EFEF5080024AC@exchange.world.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 943 Lines: 22 On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:49:48PM +1000, Steven Micallef wrote: > You're right - my mistake, it doesn't actually work on 2.4.8 either, I think > I was looking at the wrong thing when I thought it was actually working. > > Is it worth considering (optionally) making /dev available to chroot()'ed > environments, or would that just defeat the whole purpose of chroot()? Enable devfs, and you can mount devfs anywhere, even in chroots, and it will propogate things like /dev/log. Generally chroot environments don't want that though. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/