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I'm a chroot novice trying to make a simple chroot jail but am banging my head against the same problem time and time again... Any help would be massively appreciated

I've created a directory /usr/chroot that I want to use as a jail and created subdirectories under it and copied the dependencies of /bin/bash into it:

[root@WIG001-001 ~]# cd /usr/chroot/
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# ls
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# mkdir bin etc lib var home


[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# ldd /bin/bash        
linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff99dba000)        
libtinfo.so.5 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00000037a2000000)        
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x000000379fc00000)        
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x000000379f800000)        
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000000379f400000)

[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# cp /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 /usr/chroot/lib/  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# cp /lib64/libdl.so.2 /udr/csr/chroot/lib/  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# cp /lib64/libc.so.6 /usr/chroot/lib/  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# cp /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/chroot/lib/  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# cp /bin/bash bin  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# pwd  
/usr/chroot  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# /usr/sbin/chroot .  
/usr/sbin/chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory  


it looks like the /bin/bash created under /usr/chroot is fine as the below works:  
[root@WIG001-001 chroot]# su - nobody -s /usr/chroot/bin/bash  
-bash-4.0$

Can anyone give me any idea where to go from here?

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Is this a typo in the question or an error in the steps you performed? cp /lib64/libdl.so.2 /udr/csr/chroot/lib/ (should be /usr instead of /udr) – Dennis Williamson Jul 20 '10 at 21:22
That's an artefact from using Putty to log the telnet session, sorry. As you suggest, the actual command entered was cp /lib64/libdl.so.2 /usr/chroot/lib/ – Mike Atkinson Jul 20 '10 at 21:45
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The error message is misleading: /bin/bash: No such file or directory can mean either that /bin/bash doesn't exist, or that the dynamic loader used by /bin/bash doesn't exist. (You'll also get this message for a script if the interpreter on the #! line doesn't exist.)

/bin/bash is looking for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 but you provided /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2. Make /usr/chroot/lib64 a symbolic to lib or vice versa.

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Sorry, I really appreciate the help & I'm sure you're right, but I'm still confused! I'm not sure where you see /bin/bash is being provided with /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 & I'm further confused as /usr/chroot/lib64 doesn't exist. Would it be too cheeky to ask for a list of commands? I understand sym links & how to create them, but am really confused by what's happening here and what you're suggesting to correct it. Thanks very much for your help! – Mike Atkinson Jul 20 '10 at 21:05
@Mike: Look at your cp commands: you copied files from /lib64 in the base system into /lib in the chroot. But the bash binary is still looking for ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in /lib64 (which you haven't created), not /lib. You'll save yourself headaches by making /lib and /lib64 equivalent in the chroot, so run ln -s lib /usr/chroot/lib64. As for why the error message is about bash and not about ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, see my first paragraph. – Gilles Jul 20 '10 at 22:16
That works perfectly, thank you so much for taking the time, it's massively appreciated! – Mike Atkinson Jul 21 '10 at 6:51
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Just do this: mv /usr/chroot/lib /usr/chroot/lib64

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