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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
> Not really.  That's to provide a different BUILD file for spells that
> want to chroot themselves as part of the cast process.
> 
> I've just been having the spells chroot whenever possible.  Non-chrooted
> spell versions are not advisable if they can be chrooted.
> 
> I haven't run into any issues with spells that have been chrooted such
> as bind and ntp to warrant a non-chroot option.  Should we give the user
> the choice?  For thttpd, they have the choice for example in
> /etc/sysconfig/thttpd.  That could easily be done for ntp and bind as
> well, although I don't see the point on those two.  thttpd would
> legitimately need a choice since people may want to enable access to
> system programs for cgi execution.
> 
> Looking at the bug, I can see the intent, but I'd rather not to have to
> require a recast to change from chroot to non-chroot, hence the
> /etc/sysconfig/thttpd flag to set chroot or not which just requires a
> telinit run thttpd restart.
> 
> Seth

A choice of course. ;) We don't want to tell the person how they want to run
their services on their own box.

-sandalle

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