Chrooted jail allows run command or service such as http / mysql / postfix with special root directory i.e. chroot changes the root directory for application. The biggest benefit is a service that is re-rooted to another directory cannot access files outside that directory. Basically you are going to set service in sandbox. Chrooting offers [...]
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While administrating a box, you may wanted to find out what a processes is doing and find out how many file descriptors (fd) are being used. You will surprised to find out that process does open all sort of files:
=> Actual log file
=> /dev files
=> UNIX Sockets
=> Network sockets
=> Library files /lib /lib64
=> Executables and other programs etc
In this quick post, I will explain how to to count how many file descriptors are currently in use on your Linux server system.
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