Bug 916734 – need a way to exclude dirs from restorecon

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Bug 916734 - need a way to exclude dirs from restorecon

Summary:	need a way to exclude dirs from restorecon

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	policycoreutils (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	6.4
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity unspecified
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Daniel Walsh
QA Contact:	Michal Trunecka
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Blocks:	947775
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Reported:	2013-02-28 14:47 EST by seth vidal
Modified:	2014-09-30 19:34 EDT (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.38.el6
Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2013-11-21 06:07:26 EST
Type:	Bug
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2013:1608	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	policycoreutils bug fix and enhancement update	2013-11-20 16:39:06 EST

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Description seth vidal 2013-02-28 14:47:32 EST

Description of problem:
On upgrading our central log server took almost 2 hours to run restorecon as a result of an selinux policy pkg update.

It would be wonderful to backport the ability to exclude relabeling of certain dirs from the fedora fixfiles to the rhel6.4 fixfiles.



Background:
our log server has A LOT of file in /var/log - files for every host, multiple per day, spanning back years. We'd like to not relabel all of them on each update.

Try running restorecon on a massive dir with lots of files and time it. That's how long the yum process runs.

Thanks!

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2013-02-28 15:39:36 EST

Backported fixfiles script from Fedora

Fixed in 
policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.31.el6

Add /var/log to  /etc/selinux/fixfiles_exclude_dirs should stop fixfiles and selinux-policy updates from looking at this directory.

Comment 8 Michal Trunecka 2013-07-22 11:59:21 EDT

Is this issue really fixed? I haven't found this in Changelog, man pages nor in git commits.

Comment 13 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-05 08:56:12 EDT

Fixed in policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.33.el6

Comment 22 Michal Trunecka 2013-10-03 05:36:53 EDT

Yes, it seems to be ok to me too.

Comment 25 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 06:07:26 EST

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1608.html

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