Hello everyone,

If create a folder called "whatever" under /var, the context is:

root:object_r:var_t /var/whatever/

That's expected as it is under /var. If I then change its type:

chcont -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/whatever

The context looks like:

root:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t /var/whatever/

My question is...Shouldn't a relabeling of the filesystem change the type of this directory back to var_t? I just performed a relabel (/.autorelabel) and the directory stayed with httpd_sys_content_t. I thought that the only way this could happen was if I used "semanage fcontext -a ...." so that a new line would be appended in: /etc/selinux//etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local.

Not only that, If I perform "matchpathcon /var/whatever" I still get var_t as its default type. Then again, why it kept the httpd_sys_content_t after the relabel?

Thansk in advance, Jorge