Re: dchroot script (was Re: running openoffice from chroot)

[Peter Nelson <rufus@hackish.org>]

Alexandru Cabuz wrote:

> The suggestion with the 
> openoffice \"%u\" worked. But if you say there is a cleaner solution...
>
>  
>
> > > Yes, but a better thing is to fix dchroot's / su's stupidity with a
> > > script (make this do_chroot):
> > >      
> I don't understand. What should I do with this script?
>  
From the FAQ:

   You can make things slightly simpler even than this. Write a small
   shell script like the following, and place it in your PATH: eg.
   /usr/local/bin/do_dchroot

[Use the new script from the mailing list]
 

   Make it executable:

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/do_dchroot
 

   Now create a symlink to this script from each command you want to
   run inside the chroot to this shell script:

cd /usr/local/bin
ln -s do_dchroot openoffice
ln -s do_dchroot oowriter
ln -s do_dchroot oocalc
 

   Now you can execute openoffice by simply typing openoffice or oowriter.

-Peter