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16. Taking It Further

Robert La Lau1  
(1)
Blain, France
 

This chapter provides a few more topics that will not be explored in depth, but which the inquisitive system administrator can get to work with on their own.

chroot and Virtualization

The purpose of chroot (change root ) is to change the system root directory from the point of view of a certain process.

To illustrate this with an example, if a chroot is done for the processx daemon to the /chroot/processx directory, that directory will be the / directory from the point of view of that process; in principle, the daemon ...

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