On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 14:58, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:30:37PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> >
> > > 3. Possibly an additional tarball to run Hercules in a chroot environment.
> > > Testing changed glibc recently, and that has caused much confusion, more
> > > to come.
> >
> > Why would you want to run Hercules in a chroot environment with this type of
> > turnkey CD?
>
> Its great for firewall boxes, although not normally needed. I run a mail
> server on a hercules emulated S/390 running as a nobody user chrooted on
> a real box. Somehow it feels a bit safer that way

As Matt said, it's not needed for the CD, but then that's not exactly
the environment I imagined for the chroot environment.




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Cheers
John.

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