/sbin/service and /usr/sbin/run_init

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Apr 6 18:07:56 UTC 2004


Gene Czarcinski wrote:

>The various selinux documentation states that /usr/sbin/run_init should be 
>used to start the various scripts in /etc/init.d/ to ensure that that have 
>the correct selinux charactertics.
>
>I notice that service does not use run_init.  Is this a problem?
>
>Gene
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>
No we found that using run_init was far too confusing, so we added auto 
transition rules
so sysadm, or rpm  are allowed to transition initrc programs to their 
proper state.

There is a tunable to turn this off if you want to go back to using 
run_init, I believe.

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