echroot - esay chroot

What's a chroot?

A chroot on Unix like operating systems is an operation that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children. A program that is run in such a modified environment cannot name (and therefore normally not access) files outside the designated directory tree. The term "chroot" may refer to the chroot(2) system call or the chroot(8) wrapper program. The modified environment is called a "chroot jail".

What's this for?

Anyone who wants to run a chroot whose architecture is different from the host one.

Where's rootfs?

• Slackware and Arch for ARM:

  • ftp://ftp.armedslack.org/slackwarearm/slackwarearm-devtools/minirootfs/roots/
  • http://archlinuxarm.org/developers/downloads

• CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Scientific, Suse, Ubuntu, ALT, Arch, CERN, Gentoo, OpenSuse, Openwall, Slackware, SLES, and etc. for x86 and x86-64 CPUs:

  • http://download.openvz.org/template/precreated/
  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/

• Gentoo for a lot of architectures:

  • http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/

Synposis

echroot [OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...] echroot OPTION

Description

Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.

--version 
      output version information and exit

-h, --help 
      display this help and exit

License

Author

Written by Myth