Re: /sbin/service and /usr/sbin/run_init

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh redhat com>]

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
>  
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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