Problems creating a directory in /usr

[Dominick Grift]

On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 12:25 +0000, Clive Hills wrote:
> Thanks both. The application is a RDBMS and it actually wants to store it's
> code in that dir and subdirectories thereof.
> I think the actual datavolumes/files can be elsewhere. I'm guessing this
> might have to be done in permissive mode.

No this is just about the content that was created by useradd command on
behalf of your app

> Actually getting their code to work has been a big enough headache in the
> past but for historical reasons I do like to
> maintain contact with their current stuff.
> 

It tells us something about the developers and about their respect (lack
thereof) for Linux standards, the fact that they install this content
in /usr instead of a proper place

But then again, SELinux could -- in this scenario -- also be optimized.

> Clive
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