James wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:10:46 -0600
> FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
>sounds like a cool ftp file program.  stupid question:  why is chroot
>>a good thing?
>>
>>Jail?  Scuse me i'm slow today :)
> 
> Femme,

<saves some bandwith for the metred>
> These are but a few reasons why programs get chrooted.  Chroot is also
> useful if you have rebooted without running lilo first.  It allows you
> to boot from a rescue disk, mount the HDD and run lilo as if your root
> was the mount point instead of the real / 
> 
> James
> 

Thx James, your concise & clear explanation did very well.  I'd read 
about chroot before but it didn't strike me as all that important a 
command or one to come back to later.  Don't remember which now.

I shall have to investigate this now further being paranoid sort that I 
am. ;)  Besides, my porn's valuable to me!
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