NAME

chroot — run in another root directory

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

chroot runs command in the root directory at newroot. If no command was given, chroot instead runs ‘$SHELL -i’ with SHELL itself defaulting to /bin/sh.

EXIT STATUS

If command is invoked, the exit status of chroot shall be the exit status of command; Otherwise, the chroot utility shall exit with one of the following values:

125

An error occurred in chroot

126

command was found but couldn't be invoked.

127

command wasn't found.

HISTORY

The chroot utility first appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>