fixfiles - fix file SELinux security contexts.
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-M] [-f] [-T nthreads] relabel
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-T nthreads] { check | restore | verify } dir/file
...
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-B | -N time ] [-T nthreads] { check | restore |
verify }
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-T nthreads] -R rpmpackagename[,rpmpackagename...]
{ check | restore | verify }
fixfiles [-v] [-F] [-T nthreads] -C PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT { check |
restore | verify }
fixfiles [-F] [-M] [-B] [-T nthreads] 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, ext4, gfs2, xfs, jfs and btrfs 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)
- -T nthreads
- Use parallel relabeling, see setfiles(8)
One of:
- check | verify
- 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.
- [[dir/file] ... ]
- List of files or directories trees that you wish to check
file context on.
This man page was written by Richard Hally <
[email protected]>. The
script was written by Dan Walsh <
[email protected]>
setfiles(8),
restorecon(8)