Manpages - chroot.1
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
- 126
- if COMMAND is found but cannot be invoked
- 127
- if COMMAND cannot be found
- -
- the exit status of COMMAND otherwise
AUTHOR
Written by Roland McGrath.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
*chroot*(2)
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Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chroot>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chroot invocation'
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