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Bug 1513098 - RFE: man page for restorecon should document the -vv option availability and behavior
Summary: RFE: man page for restorecon should document the -vv option availability and ...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: policycoreutils
Version: 7.4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Vit Mojzis
QA Contact: Dalibor Pospíšil
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-11-14 18:22 UTC by R P Herrold
Modified: 2018-04-04 11:53 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: policycoreutils-2.5-21.el7
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Clone Of: 1260238
Environment:
Last Closed: 2018-04-04 11:53:42 UTC
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Description R P Herrold 2017-11-14 18:22:40 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1260238 +++


--- Additional comment from Petr Lautrbach on 2016-07-19 15:20:07 EDT ---

You can use restorecon -vv if you need more verbose output:

# restorecon -vv /etc/machine-id
restorecon: /etc/machine-id not reset customized by admin to system_u:object_r:svirt_sandbox_file_t:s0

--- Additional comment from M. Scherer on 2016-07-19 15:39:35 EDT ---

I didn't knew there was 2 different level of verbosity, likely because that's neither in the man page, nor the --help output.

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new matter:

the 'train track' summary at the top of the man page is:

SYNOPSIS
       restorecon [-R] [-n] [-p] [-v] [-e directory] pathname...

       restorecon -f infilename [-e directory] [-R] [-n] [-p] [-v] [-F]

as to the effect of the '-v' option, we see:

       -n     don't change any file labels (passive check).   To  display  the
              files whose labels would be changed, add -v.

       -v     show changes in file labels, if type or role  are  going  to  be
              changed.

---------------

the problem:

I had no idea until reading this bug that a behavior undocumented in the 'man' page existed 

The availability and the effect of multiple -v option repetition should be noted


As this is documentation,rather than function it is a low risk addition, and may well be an EASYFIX
Comment 3 Vit Mojzis 2017-11-24 16:52:00 UTC 
https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/commit/bec41c4ff6d0cdf39c84c1c953ef486a056891da
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