Peter, thanks and yes I did some further refreshing of my understanding of what chroot does. I have to assume that the easy-debian "app" does not modify any of the files in the "parent" OS/file system while easy-debian is running. Is that correct? One artifact of my having installed easy-debian is that, apparently, the data base which I painstakingly created for the multilist app got blown away somehow. Now I need to see if I can find where multilist normally stores its databases to see if the database is still there or moved somewhere else in the filesystem. Unfortunately and unwisely I did not perform an IT backup prior to doing the easy-debian install. This leads me to think that a great app to have on the IT is one that saves a complete image, say,once a day, of the IT storage contents to a network based storage service such as that provided by Amazon Web Services with their Simple Storage Service (s3). Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * *Serving the Entrepreneurial Enterprise, Emerging Network Service Provider, and* *SmartDigitalTM** home markets * * * *Certified SANS GIAC, NSA -IAM, NSA-IEM* * * *Cisco Select Certified Partner and SMB Specialist | **Microsoft Small Business Specialist | Speakeasy Certified VOIP Partner | Qualys Certified Qualysguard Specialist* * * (M) 703 407 2278 (F) 703 620 5388 (W) http://www.acadiasecure.com primary email address: jholmblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jholmblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> backup email address: jholmblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Peter Chung wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:57 PM, John B. Holmblad <jholmblad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Qole, >> >> I am still interested to understand how this "app" relates to the N800 >> OS. Does Debian run as an app, a VM, or something else? >> >> > > You can find more information with the search term "chroot" > > -- > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
