Re: [IBMiOSS] Delete chroot?

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

gulp.

The ONLY way chroots should be deleted is with rm (i.e. rm -rf
/QOpenSys/mychroot) because rm doesn't follow symbolic links. Other tools
(FileZilla, maybe RDi) ~do~ following symbolic links.  Inside of a chroot
there are symlinks to /QOpenSys/usr/bin.   If you're deleting the chroot
from ~outside~ it will follow the symbolic links to the base of PASE/IFS,
which means you're deleting files that will need to be restored from either
a backup or install the PASE license program again.

Aaron Bartell
IBM i hosting, starting at $157/mo  litmis.com/spaces



On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:48 AM Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just installed chroot via the RPM.  I was trying to create one, but it
> kept giving an error.  I tried this example command:
> chroot_setup /QOpenSys/root_path minimal includes    (from
> https://bitbucket.org/litmis/ibmichroot)
>
> That worked, so I tried to delete that root_path directory via RDi.  That
> was taking forever, so I terminated the command.
>
> While the delete was processing, I retrieved the chroot_setup command,
> changed target dir and tried again.  That gave me an error on grep.  Now I
> get this error whenever I just run grep from a shell:
> -bash: /usr/bin/grep: Permission denied
>
>
> I can't help but think these things are related.  Any idea what I've done?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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