On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:28:57 -0500 , Jim.Hyslop wrote
> OK, here's an even sillier question - what is a "chroot jail"?
> 

It's a means of restricting the operations of an application (on UNIX-like
systems) to a particular area of a disk. Here's a pretty good explanation:

http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-12/chroot_01.html

Regards,

Geoff


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