SElinux filesystem relabel at boot problem

Peter Smith peter.smith at utsouthwestern.edu
Thu Mar 15 16:33:33 UTC 2007


Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> Hi
>
> I recently tried turning SElinux back onto "Enforcing" and rebooting
> so that a filesystem relabel would happen. However, on reboot, loads
> of messages are spewed to the console - I'm not sure if this is during
> the relabel or afterwards, and half an hour later it is still going.
> The messages being spewed to the console only and don't appear in any
> logs and they fly by too quick to read (they are selinux audit type
> messages though).
<snip>

Did you go through the correct procedure to kick off the relabel?  
Creating the specially named file at the top of the root filesystem?  If 
it is relabelling, it will state that it is doing so at boot.  It will 
be quite obvious.  You can look at the startup scripts in /etc/rc.d/ to 
see what makes it happen (rc.local, rc.sysinit, rc).

Peter




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