/var/tmp/badcontext

[Daniel J Walsh]

Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:07:22 -0400, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
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>>>What should users do with the files listed in /var/tmp/badcontext?
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>>>For the last 3 days I have had over 10000 files listed since I
>>>installed it. I was wondering if I should be running some command
>>>after a yum upgrade that I didnt know about ;).
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>>>  17287 /var/tmp/badcontext.HNjBUG2517
>>>  52272 /var/tmp/badcontext.XzqEZB4859
>>>  22518 /var/tmp/badcontext.YGZFP27816
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>>restorecon -f /var/tmp/badcontext.YGZFP27816
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>>Will fix the context, then delete the files.  We are investigating how
>>do handle this better.  Also
>>some of the bad contexts are not really bad, IE the tools not smart
>>enough to realize that the context is
>>valid.   Setfiles is just reporting files that don't match the regular
>>expessions in the file_contexts file.
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>>So cache files created by mozilla get marked as bad even though they are
>>valid.
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I meant delete the /var/tmp/badcontext.*

>When you say delete.. do you mean it whacks the file on the disk or
>some other copy...
>Looking at the files.. my entire home directory is considered to be in
>an invalid context. I am not sure I want those files deleted.. And I
>am not sure
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>/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.9
>/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
>/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2
>/usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0
>/usr/lib/sendmail
>/usr/lib/libboost_signals.so.1
>/usr/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework.so.1
>/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
>/usr/lib/libboost_thread.so.1
>/usr/lib/libkrbafs.so.0
>/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem.so.1
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>would be good to kill.. I wouldnt mind losing all of /etc/gconf :).
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>Is there anything else that can be done?
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