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luciano
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 Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:47 am Post subject: Some help with sandbox, please! |
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I've known about sandbox for a while,and thought it's a great idea to ensure my system doesn't get polluted with all sort of stuff outside the portage installation tree. Lately I've come across some commercial software that I must install manually, and decided to use sandbox to ensure it only installs under '/opt'.
So I tried the following:
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chichenitza R2013b # sandbox
============================= Gentoo path sandbox ==============================
Detection of the support files.
Verification of the required files.
Setting up the required environment variables.
The protected environment has been started.
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Process being started in forked instance.
* Loading sandboxed shell
* Log File: /var/log/sandbox/sandbox-5976.log
* Debug Log File: /var/log/sandbox/sandbox-debug-5976.log
* sandboxon: turn sandbox on
* sandboxoff: turn sandbox off
* addread <path>: allow <path> to be read
* addwrite <path>: allow <path> to be written
* adddeny <path>: deny access to <path>
* addpredict <path>: allow fake access to <path>
[s] chichenitza R2013b # sandboxon
[s] chichenitza R2013b # addwrite /opt/
[s] chichenitza R2013b # ./install
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And this launches the binary installer (it's a java installer, I believe). It ran without any errors, and I selected '/opt/X' as the destination directory. However, after it closes, I can't see any files installed in my system! Is there something I need to do to 'commit' the changes? Where's all my stuff gone? I still have the shell open if that helps ...
To make matters worse, I registered the software as a final installation step, so I'm going to have trouble re-installing it!
I tried googling for some more information on sandbox, but there seems no documentation available. Somebody should remedy this! It looks like a great tool! |
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luciano
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Ah seems it was a typo in the installation path! Still, I'm surprised there is no documentation for this product.
Also, everything got installed into '/optl' - I would have expected that sandbox would have prevented this. What did I need to do to control this? 'adddeny /' and then 'addwrite /opt' ? |
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