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From: | Manickam Palaniappan |
Subject: | File-based system Information is problematic when chroot is used |
Date: | Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:21:42 +0530 |
Hi,I would like to know why a design decision was made to hold certain system information ( like timezone in /etc/localtime ) in a file-based manner rather than using shared memory / sockets or such IPC techniques, as this hinders a process to access the information after it does a chroot call.
In my case, ( and certainly many other cases ) when using wu-ftpd, smbd/nmbd etc.. I find syslog entries switching from localtime to UTC when it should not do so, requiring me to copy the timezone file in the directories concerned each time timezone is changed.
I cant do a symbolic link to the files either, as its useless in a chrooted environment. Hard links to the information files wont be possible if the original files are in a separate FS.
Thanks, Manick.P.S : Is there any possible way to revert back to Actual Root ( possibly using chroot )
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