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

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 03:39:50AM -0400, Matthew Patton wrote:
> 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?

Why do you think that SELinux has something to do with your issue if
it is permissive or disabled?

This sounds like a general tomcat issue thou, doesn't it?

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat