SELinux problem (was Re: Is httpd in FC3 chrooted???)

[D. D. Brierton]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 15:38 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Restorecon bug should be fixed in the next policycoreutils release.  
> Basically it is segfaulting if a file system
> was never labeled.
> 
> A fresh install of selinux will relabel a file system, but if you had 
> your home directory on a separate file system it was never
> labeled.  /.autorelabel fixed it. but if you get the new restorecon it 
> should have worked also.
> 
> Any time you see file_t that is a file labeling problem.  file_t is what 
> the kernel returns when a file is not labeled.

Thanks for the clarification, Daniel. As it happens my problem this
morning forced me to actually sit down and read through a lot of the
SELinux docs at fedora.redhat.com (which were very good, BTW) and
finally I actually know what SELinux is! Every cloud has a silver
lining ...

Best, Darren

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