Re: SELinux issue (?)

[Andre Costa <acosta ar microlink com br>]

Thks, Panu, installing policy package apparently did the trick (I
already had SELINUX set to 'disabled').

Best,

Andre

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:38:45 +0300 (EEST)
Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@welho.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Andre Costa wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > every once in a while, when I use rpm on my FC2, this pops up:
> > 
> > /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts: No such file or directory
> > 
> > It seems to be harmless, but, still, suggests me that I should fix
> > something... should I just touch the above file? Should I put
> > something special in it?
> 
> That happens at least on systems upgraded to FC2 from earlier versions
> (vs fresh install) because "policy" package doesn't get installed. Fix
> by installing the policy package, additionally you'll probably want to
> 
> disable SELinux by putting SELINUX=disabled to /etc/sysconfig/selinux.
> 
> I dunno what's the intended behavior, the error is easy enough to get
> rid of but then I could imagine that on system where SELinux is
> enabled on purpose you'd want to know if the file_contexts file
> suddenly has gone missing. Anyway, this silences the error for the
> better or worse and additionally removes the hardcoding of
> file_contexts path (which still is present in rpm-head btw):
> 
> --- rpm-4.3.1/lib/rpmsx.c.fc        2004-08-14 22:07:27.417316686 
> +0300
> +++ rpm-4.3.1/lib/rpmsx.c       2004-08-14 22:30:02.579597168 +0300
> @@ -327,11 +327,10 @@
>  
>  /*@-branchstate@*/
>      if (fn == NULL)
> -       fn = "/etc/security/selinux/file_contexts";
> +       fn = rpmGetPath("%{?_install_file_context_path}", NULL);
>  /*@=branchstate@*/
>  
>      if ((fp = fopen(fn, "r")) == NULL) {
> -       perror(fn);
>         return -1;
>      }
>  
> 
> 	- Panu -
> 
> 
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Andre Oliveira da Costa