Re: DEVFS in a chroot?

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:13:30 +0200
In message <348620619.1083334458_at_[10.122.7.143]>, Eivind Olsen writes:
>Hello.
>
>I'm running some processes in a chroot (not a jail) and I need to have a 
>small /dev in the chroot directory containing for example random and 
>urandom.
>As I understand it, the recommended way to do this is to use devfs, but I'm 
>not sure how to go about doing that.
>
>Should I mount /var/chroot/dev as type devfs?

Yes:

	mount -t devfs randomargument	/var/chroot/dev


>And I'd need to create some devfs-rulefile?

Only if reducing the contents of that devfs instance.


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Received on Fri Apr 30 2004 - 03:13:42 UTC

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