-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/16/2012 03:34 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Y'know, I know I'm asking for help, but I am so bloody frustrated that I > want to give an example of why most admins I know *loathe* selinux. > > chcon doesn't last through reboots. Why? Or why have it? semanage doesn't > offer the most obvious flag: -R, recurse. > > I've just restored a subversion repository from backup, after a drive > failed. Now I'm trying to set the context. I'm trying to follow Dan's > instructions in his blog > <http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/28027.html?thread=197755> > > semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t 'mipav-svn/(*)' > /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local: line 5 has > invalid regex mipav-svn/(*): Invalid preceding regular expression > > Huh? Ditto without the parens. Nothing's changed. I went back and used > chcon -R, which operates the way I expect a *Nix command to, so that > selinux would shut up. But I want this permanent, so what's the magical > incantation? Do I have the wrong keyboard? Or light a candle? > > mark > You are confusing Glob format that the shell uses with regular expressions that grep and awk use. semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t '/mipav-svn(/.*)?' > -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAtUz0ACgkQrlYvE4MpobO2LQCg07Y+B9HkHp9RvobaFSgWf52M Q2sAn2t3lBj2vwcqzaPRglJxNBSbR9hd =VF6J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux