fixfiles(8) — Linux manual page

fixfiles(8)                                                  fixfiles(8)

NAME

       fixfiles - fix file SELinux security contexts.

SYNOPSIS

       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

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,
       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.

OPTIONS

       -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)

ARGUMENTS

       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.

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)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of the selinux (Security-Enhanced Linux user-
       space libraries and tools) project.  Information about the
       project can be found at 
       ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki⟩.  If you have a
       bug report for this manual page, see
       ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/wiki/Contributing⟩.
       This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux⟩ on 2024-06-14.  (At
       that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
       the repository was 2023-05-11.)  If you discover any rendering
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Pages that refer to this page: selinux_config(5), restorecon(8), selinux(8)

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