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Man Page: chroot

Operating Environment: bsd

Section: 8

CHROOT(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 CHROOT(8)

NAME
chroot - change root directory
SYNOPSIS
chroot newroot [ command ]
DESCRIPTION
The chroot command changes its root directory to the supplied directory newroot and exec's command, if supplied, or an interactive copy of your shell (as specified by the environmental variable SHELL) if not. /bin/sh is used if SHELL is not specified. Note, command or the shell are run as your real-user-id.
SEE ALSO
chdir(2), chroot(2), environ(7) 4.3 Berkeley Distribution December 5, 1988 CHROOT(8)
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chroot(1) - centos
chroot(8) - opendarwin
chroot(1m) - sunos
chroot(8) - osx
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