fixfiles(8)

NAME
fixfiles - fix file SELinux security contexts.

SYNOPSIS
fixfiles [-F] [ -R rpmpackagename[,rpmpackagename...] ] [ -C PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT ] [-l logfile ] [-o outputfile ] { check | restore | [-F] relabel | verify }" fixfiles [-F] [-l logfile ] [-o outputfile ] { check | restore|[-f] relabel | verify } [[dir/file] ... ] fixfiles onboot

DESCRIPTION
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.

fixfiles onboot will setup the machine to relabel on the next reboot.

OPTIONS

-l logfile
    Save the output to the specified logfile

-o outputfile
    Save all files that have file_context that differs from the default, in outputfile.

-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. (-a will get all files in the RPM database).

-C PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT
    Run a diff on the PREVIOUS_FILECONTEXT file to the currently installed one, and restore the context of all affected files.

ARGUMENTS
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.

AUTHOR
This man page was written by Richard Hally <rhally@mindspring.com>. The script was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>

SEE ALSO
setfiles(8),restorecon(8)