Re: {bb} OpenBSD chroot Apache and History...

[Ed Vazquez <ed.vazquez@dhha.org>]

--On Thursday, October 28, 2004 13:03 -0600 Philip Clark 
<pcclark@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Oooooo, nasty :)
>
> I'm going to assume that you have all the necessary binaries,
> libraries and configuration files copied into the jail and
> have no problem running a representative sample of lines
> from the standard scripts from the command line (as the
> BB user).
>
> Two things then spring to mind. First, can you append to
> the dev/null inside the jail? In other words, will:
>
>   echo "nonsense" >> /dev/null
>
> work, where:
>
>   echo "nonsense" > /dev/null
>
> will not?

Well, that turned out to be a Simpsons moment.  Once you 
prompted what is passing for my brain today, I recalled that 
OBSD mounts "nodev" by default.

Remounted without "nodev" and found the _rest_ of the file 
dependencies (including having to create /dev/stdout) and it 
seems to work now!

> Second, what are the permissions on the jailed "dev"
> directory? Does making it world writable help?
>
> Cheers, Phil.

Thanks!

--
Ed V.

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