On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 15:38 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Restorecon bug should be fixed in the next policycoreutils release.
> Basically it is segfaulting if a file system
> was never labeled.
>
> A fresh install of selinux will relabel a file system, but if you had
> your home directory on a separate file system it was never
> labeled. /.autorelabel fixed it. but if you get the new restorecon it
> should have worked also.
>
> Any time you see file_t that is a file labeling problem. file_t is what
> the kernel returns when a file is not labeled.
Thanks for the clarification, Daniel. As it happens my problem this
morning forced me to actually sit down and read through a lot of the
SELinux docs at fedora.redhat.com (which were very good, BTW) and
finally I actually know what SELinux is! Every cloud has a silver
lining ...
Best, Darren
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