OS: suse 9 Mysql: 4.0.15 Googled: yep, but didn't find anything conclusive I'm attempting to chroot mysql, and I'm failing [miserabaly]. I realize that this is a mysql list, but I currently believe it's either a dependency of mysql I forgot or something something I'm not aware of w/ mysql. I also figured I'd get a better response from people who also have chroot'd mysql rather than asking the chroot folks.
Excuting mysql non-chroot'd works fine. I'm using the stock mysql from Suse, and therefore it's dynam linked. I've 'ldd /usr/sbin/myslqd' as well as 'ldd /usr/bin/mysql' It [chroot] fails stating "permision denied" w/o giving anymore info [is there some hidden switch for chroot?] When I strace it [strace -o fail.log chroot /chroot/mysql/ mysql /usr/sbin/mysqld &] I get this in the output log::: execve("/usr/bin/chroot", ["chroot", "/chroot/mysql/", "mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="template", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x804b9ac old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40019000 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=12190, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 12190, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001a000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320]\1"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1461208, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 1256644, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001d000 old_mmap(0x40149000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x12c000) = 0x40149000 old_mmap(0x4014e000, 7364, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4014e000 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x4001a000, 12190) = 0 open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) brk(0) = 0x804b9ac brk(0x806c9ac) = 0x806c9ac brk(0) = 0x806c9ac brk(0x806d000) = 0x806d000 open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2601, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4001a000 read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2601 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x4001a000, 4096) = 0 open("/usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=178468, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 178468, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40150000 close(3) = 0 chroot("/chroot/mysql/") = 0 chdir("/") = 0 execve("/sbin/mysql", ["mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/usr/sbin/mysql", ["mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/usr/local/sbin/mysql", ["mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/root/bin/mysql", ["mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/usr/local/bin/mysql", ["mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/usr/bin/mysql", ["mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) execve("/usr/X11R6/bin/mysql", ["mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/bin/mysql", ["mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/usr/games/mysql", ["mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/opt/gnome/bin/mysql", ["mysql", "/usr/sbin/mysqld"], [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "chroot: ", 8) = 8 write(2, "mysql", 5) = 5 write(2, ": Permission denied", 19) = 19 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 exit_group(126) = ? Now I'm definitely not a 'strace guru' but the last set of::: execve "/sbin/mysql" seems to be chroot looking for 'mysqld' and not finding it...But then it finds it [in the jail [/chroot/mysql/usr/bin/mysql] ] but doesn't like the permissions. :( Which follows the 'error message' that I get when just using chroot w/o strace. Here is a listing of my /chroot/mysql/* w/ permissions. Am I missing a dependency? Any thoughts? /chroot/mysql/dev: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 13:14 . drwxr-xr-x 9 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 14:49 .. crw-rw-rw- 1 mysql mysql 1, 3 Apr 13 13:14 null /chroot/mysql/etc: total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 13:12 . drwxr-xr-x 9 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 14:49 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 484 Apr 13 13:03 group -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 370 Apr 13 13:02 host.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 696 Apr 13 13:01 hosts -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 4901 Apr 13 13:03 my.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 60 Apr 13 13:12 passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 18 Apr 13 13:02 resolv.conf /chroot/mysql/lib: total 3392 drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 14:28 . drwxr-xr-x 9 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 14:49 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 112347 Apr 13 13:30 ld-linux.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 1469811 Apr 13 13:30 libc.so.6 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 43542 Apr 13 13:26 libcrypt.so.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 13625 Apr 13 13:26 libdl.so.2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 40474 Apr 13 13:29 libgcc_s.so.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 183008 Apr 13 13:29 libm.so.6 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 319785 Apr 13 14:28 libncurses.so.5 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 89220 Apr 13 13:27 libnsl.so.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 86940 Apr 13 13:28 libpthread.so.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 984408 Apr 13 13:28 libstdc++.so.5 -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 65927 Apr 13 13:26 libz.so.1 /chroot/mysql/sbin: total 2572 drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 14:49 . drwxr-xr-x 9 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 14:49 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 2617686 Apr 13 14:49 mysqld /chroot/mysql/tmp: total 8 drwxrwxrwt 2 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 12:56 . drwxr-xr-x 9 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 14:49 .. /chroot/mysql/usr: total 20 drwxr-xr-x 5 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 13:33 . drwxr-xr-x 9 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 14:49 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 12:56 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 13:34 sbin drwxr-xr-x 3 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 13:09 share /chroot/mysql/var: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 13:39 . drwxr-xr-x 9 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 14:49 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 14:35 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 4096 Apr 13 12:56 tmp Many many many many thanks!!!! 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