Re: [IBMiOSS] Delete chroot?

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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