[Spacewalk-list] why does Tomcat break if you move the webapps/rhn?

[Matthew Patton]

I don't much care for Spacewalk's penchant for scattering stuff about  
/var. So I moved most of it off to /opt/spacewalk. What really chapped my  
behind was when I moved /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/rhn and symlinked it to  
/opt/spacewalk/webapp. Java couldn't load any .jar in /usr/share/java as  
referenced from within ./WEB-INF/lib. SELINUX has long since been off but  
that didn't matter. I had no problem reading the .jar files as uid=tomcat  
so was further perplexed.

I forcibly removed the SELINUX security contexts from the .jar files but  
no such luck with symlinks. 'setfattr -h -x ...' didn't actually do  
anything.

What is it about how tomcat6 is launched that it respects selinux contexts  
even when it's been set off across the entire system?

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