[K12OSN] Sharing a life-saving command

[Eric Harrison]

Kevin Matson wrote:
> Per the manual page this command sets the security context on files. The
> "-R /" made it recurse throughout your entire file system. My questions
> to the gurus is what does the restorecon command reference against when
> it is setting security contexts?

The SELinux policy files are located in /etc/selinux/

-Eric


>
> Kevin M.
>
>
> -------------------------
>
> Kevin Matson
> IT - Lab Team
> kmatson at pps.k12.or.us
> 503-916-2000 x4960
> 503-916-3375
>
> Portland Public Schools
>
>>>>aahodson at episd.org 03/31/05 5:51 PM >>>
>
> Hi folks
>
> After a K12LTSP 4.2 yum update, and some minor tweaks, one of the
> servers that is heavily used at a middle school I work with
> (keyboarding) started behaving very strangly giving me on reboot
> 'portmap errors while loading shared libraries' leading to more
> permission denied errors, nfs quota errors, and many more!
>
> Long story short - as root I was able to execute
>
> restorecon -R /
>
> and while it took quite a while, the next reboot came up roses. Perhaps
> some of our gurus can explain what this command does - all I know is
> today it was a life saver for me, and I wanted to share it with the
> group.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Alan A Hodson MEd.
> oF: 915-587-1170
> fX: 915-587-1161
> aahodson at episd.org
> http://links.episd.org
> . . . " If we teach today's students as we taught yesterdays, we rob
> them
> of tomorrow " . . . .        John Dewey
> -=o=-
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