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)

                                                   2002031409                                        fixfiles(8)