chroot man page on SmartOS

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CHROOT(1M)							    CHROOT(1M)

NAME
       chroot - change root directory for a command

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/sbin/chroot newroot command

DESCRIPTION
       The  chroot  utility causes command to be executed relative to newroot.
       The meaning of any initial slashes (/) in the path names is changed  to
       newroot for command and any of its child processes. Upon execution, the
       initial working directory is newroot.

       Notice that redirecting the output of command to a file,

	 chroot newroot command >x

       will create the file x relative to the original root  of	 command,  not
       the new one.

       The  new root path name is always relative to the current root. Even if
       a chroot is currently in effect, the newroot argument  is  relative  to
       the current root of the running process.

       This command can be run only by the super-user.

RETURN VALUES
       The exit status of chroot is the return value of command.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1 Using the chroot Utility

       The  chroot  utility  provides  an  easy	 way to extract tar files (see
       tar(1)) written with absolute filenames to a different location. It  is
       necessary  to copy the shared libraries used by tar (see ldd(1)) to the
       newroot filesystem.

	 example# mkdir /tmp/lib; cd /lib
	 example# cp ld.so.1 libc.so.1 libcmd.so.1 libdl.so.1 \
		  libsec.so.1 /tmp/lib
	 example# cp /usr/bin/tar /tmp
	 example# dd if=/dev/rmt/0 | chroot /tmp tar xvf -


SEE ALSO
       cd(1), tar(1), chroot(2), ttyname(3C), attributes(5)

NOTES
       Exercise extreme caution when referencing device files in the new  root
       file system.

       References by routines such as ttyname(3C) to stdin, stdout, and stderr
       will find that the  device  associated  with  the  file	descriptor  is
       unknown after chroot is run.

				 Dec 15, 2003			    CHROOT(1M)
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