fstab-sync - relabeling /etc/fstab?

Sun Aug 29 07:05:33 UTC 2004

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 07:15, Tom London <selinux at comcast.net> wrote:
> Each boot, something is relabeling /etc/fstab from etc_t to tmp_t.

Probably it is creating the file in /tmp and then moving it to /etc.  Even 
without SE Linux this is a bug.  /tmp may not be on the root file system, in 
which case moving the file from /tmp to /etc is not atomic and may result in 
file truncation on an unexpected power failure or system crash.

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