/etc/rc.sysinit: restorecon being run even when selinux disabled

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 29 23:00:19 UTC 2004


Robert P. J. Day (rpjday at mindspring.com) said: 
> =====
> if [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] && LC_ALL=C fgrep -q " /dev " /proc/mounts ; then
>         /sbin/restorecon  -R /dev 2>/dev/null
> fi
> =====
> 
> which will *apparently* be run regardless of whether or not selinux is
> enabled or not.  if selinux is disabled, is there any point in even
> checking whether or not to run restorecon?  (from what i read, the
> "rectorecon" program is clearly related to selinux.)

restorecon will check whether selinux is enabled and immediately
exit, so it's not a huge saving to bail in the !SELinux case.
But fixed in CVS anyway. :)

Bill




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