From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2006-10-13T23:48:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does 'chroot' interfere with 'system'?

On 10/13/06, Martin Coxall <pseudo.meta@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could this be it?  You could check by verifying the return
> > value of the various calls to Kernel.system, no?
>
> The odd thing is, that seems like the obvious answer. However, if you
> take only the first two lines:
>
> Dir.chroot(Dir.pwd)
> Kernel.system('echo "new file" > foo')
>
> I'd expect that to work, because 'echo' is a builtin on most shells.
> But it doesn't, not on a random debian box I just tried. I don't
> understand that.

As the previous posters said: do you have your shell in the chrooted dir?