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SELinux Mailing ListRe: file_contexts patch
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl_at_lkcl.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:15:34 +0100
i note the addition of /var/run/usb here. is that because SuSE has modified the hotplug package to place state information in that directory? please advise, because i have raised a bug-request with the debian hotplug maintainers, and i believe that the upstream maintainers favour the use of /etc/hotplug/run rather than /var/run/something. the reason stated is because /var could be on a different partition that may not have been mounted (bearing in mind that /etc/init.d/mountall.sh is called first to mount local partitions, and hotplug is pretty much immediately next, and pretty much everything else is tertiary). personally i think that reason is not good enough, because if say you have /var on a firmware-based usb memory stick (requiring a hotplug-generated event to load the firmware), or /var is nfs-mounted over a firmware-based usb network card, then you're really asking for a lot of trouble. so, _if_ SuSE have made that decision, it would be good to know the reasoning and to have some way of arm-twisting the hotplug maintainers to a more sensible decision [that is FHS compliant aside from anything else]. l.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:15:31PM +0200, Thomas Bleher wrote:
> diff -urN orig/file_contexts/program/hotplug.fc mod/file_contexts/program/hotplug.fc -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.Received on Sat 17 Jul 2004 - 06:04:44 EDT |
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Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009 |