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CHROOT
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Exit status:
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
SEE ALSO
NAME
chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory
SYNOPSIS
chroot
[
OPTION
]
NEWROOT
[
COMMAND
[
ARG
]...]
chroot
OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with
root directory set to NEWROOT.
--groups
=
G_LIST
specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN
--userspec = USER :GROUP
specify user and group (ID or name) to use
--skip-chdir
do not change working directory to ’/’
|
--help |
display this help and exit |
--version
output version information and exit
If no command is given, run ’"$SHELL" -i ’ (default: ’/bin/sh -i ’).
Exit status:
|
125 |
if the chroot command itself fails |
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|
126 |
if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked |
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127 |
if COMMAND cannot be found |
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- |
the exit status of COMMAND otherwise |
AUTHOR
Written by Roland McGrath.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils
online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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SEE ALSO
chroot (2)
Full
documentation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chroot
invocation'
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Debian (9.7-3)
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