fixfiles - fix file SELinux security contexts.
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-M] [-f] relabel
fixfiles [-v] [-F] { check | restore | verify } dir/file
...
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-B | -N time ] { check | restore |
verify }
fixfiles [-v] [-F] -R rpmpackagename[,rpmpackagename...]
{ check | restore | verify }
fixfiles [-v] [-F] -C PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT { check |
restore | verify }
fixfiles [-F] [-M] [-B] onboot
This manual page describes the fixfiles script.
This script is primarily used to correct the security context
database (extended attributes) on filesystems.
It can also be run at any time to relabel when adding support for
new policy, or just check whether the file contexts are all as you expect.
By default it will relabel all mounted ext2, ext3, xfs and jfs file systems
as long as they do not have a security context mount option. You can use the
-R flag to use rpmpackages as an alternative. The file
/etc/selinux/fixfiles_exclude_dirs can contain a list of directories
excluded from relabeling.
fixfiles onboot will setup the machine to relabel on the
next reboot.
- -B
- If specified with onboot, this fixfiles will record the current date in
the /.autorelabel file, so that it can be used later to speed up labeling.
If used with restore, the restore will only affect files that were
modified today.
- -F
- Force reset of context to match file_context for customizable files
- -f
- Clear /tmp directory with out prompt for removal.
- -R
rpmpackagename[,rpmpackagename...]
- Use the rpm database to discover all files within the specified packages
and restore the file contexts.
- -C
PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT
- Run a diff on the PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT file to the currently installed
one, and restore the context of all affected files.
- -N time
- Only act on files created after the specified date. Date must be specified
in "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM" format. Date field will be passed to find
--newermt command.
- -M
- Bind mount filesystems before relabeling them, this allows fixing the
context of files or directories that have been mounted over.
- -v
- Modify verbosity from progress to verbose. (Run restorecon with -v instead
of -p)
One of:
- check
- print any incorrect file context labels, showing old and new context, but
do not change them.
- restore
- change any incorrect file context labels.
- relabel
- Prompt for removal of contents of /tmp directory and then change any
incorrect file context labels to match the install file_contexts
file.
- verify
- List out files with incorrect file context labels, but do not change
them.
- [[dir/file] ... ]
- List of files or directories trees that you wish to check file context on.
This man page was written by Richard Hally
<rhally@mindspring.com>. The script was written by Dan Walsh
<dwalsh@redhat.com>