HOWTO? Install TrueType fonts (not MS freefonts) onto Fedora 10

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Sat Jun 13 19:56:20 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> said:
> Tim wrote:
> > Surely not...  If you copy a file to a standard location, it should get
> > set the proper contexts, during the copy.
> 
> That's not how SELinux works. It'll copy the context from the original
> location.

Nope.  "cp" does not copy context by default, so a file would inherit
the context of the destination directory.  You have to specify
additional options to copy context.

If you "mv" a file, the context is not changed.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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