[RFC] /var versus /srv

Richi Plana myfedora at richip.dhs.org
Thu Sep 27 02:52:45 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 21:17 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 17:59:34 Richi Plana wrote:
> > If there's any interest, I could make spec files (based off of the
> > latest SRPM) for one of these packages to move the data directory
> > from /var to /srv. Just let me know which packages you find interesting
> > and I'll submit the spec file to the package maintainer (or here if
> > Fedora doesn't want to move it).
> 
> AFAIK, selinux only knows about a couple servers, like apache, having data 
> in /srv. If SE Linux is going to protect the data, a standard mapping 
> between /srv and /var for everything should be worked out so that policy can 
> be adapted.

Technically, those SELinux policies should come or be set by the
installation package. Would you happen to know what Fedora's stand on
that is?
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Richi Plana




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