chroot issues

[Russell Fulton]

Carter Bullard wrote:
> Hey Russell,
> I referring to the input files, 

Doh!  I thought I must be missing something!

 when argus reads its input from a pcap
> formatted file.
> My assumption is that you won't chroot if you're reading a packet dump,
> but you
> never know what people will do ;o)
> 
> Can these packet input files be outside the chroot'd directory?
> I'll open the output files after the chroot and change in uid and gid.
> 

Certainly :)  and if you are just reading files then you are probably
not running as root anyway. But as you say "You never know what people
will do ;o)"!

Russell