/var/tmp/badcontext

[Stephen John Smoogen]

What should users do with the files listed in /var/tmp/badcontext?

For the last 3 days I have had over 10000 files listed since I
installed it. I was wondering if I should be running some command
after a yum upgrade that I didnt know about ;).

17287 /var/tmp/badcontext.HNjBUG2517
   52272 /var/tmp/badcontext.XzqEZB4859
   22518 /var/tmp/badcontext.YGZFP27816

[Daniel J Walsh]

Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> What should users do with the files listed in /var/tmp/badcontext?
>
> For the last 3 days I have had over 10000 files listed since I
> installed it. I was wondering if I should be running some command
> after a yum upgrade that I didnt know about ;).
>
> 17287 /var/tmp/badcontext.HNjBUG2517
>   52272 /var/tmp/badcontext.XzqEZB4859
>   22518 /var/tmp/badcontext.YGZFP27816

restorecon -f /var/tmp/badcontext.YGZFP27816

Will fix the context, then delete the files.  We are investigating how 
do handle this better.  Also
some of the bad contexts are not really bad, IE the tools not smart 
enough to realize that the context is
valid.   Setfiles is just reporting files that don't match the regular 
expessions in the file_contexts file.

So cache files created by mozilla get marked as bad even though they are 
valid.

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:07:22 -0400, Daniel J Walsh  wrote:
> Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> > What should users do with the files listed in /var/tmp/badcontext?
> >
> > For the last 3 days I have had over 10000 files listed since I
> > installed it. I was wondering if I should be running some command
> > after a yum upgrade that I didnt know about ;).
> >
> > 17287 /var/tmp/badcontext.HNjBUG2517
> >   52272 /var/tmp/badcontext.XzqEZB4859
> >   22518 /var/tmp/badcontext.YGZFP27816
>
> restorecon -f /var/tmp/badcontext.YGZFP27816
>
> Will fix the context, then delete the files.  We are investigating how
> do handle this better.  Also
> some of the bad contexts are not really bad, IE the tools not smart
> enough to realize that the context is
> valid.   Setfiles is just reporting files that don't match the regular
> expessions in the file_contexts file.
>
> So cache files created by mozilla get marked as bad even though they are
> valid.

When you say delete.. do you mean it whacks the file on the disk or
some other copy...
Looking at the files.. my entire home directory is considered to be in
an invalid context. I am not sure I want those files deleted.. And I
am not sure

/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.9
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2
/usr/lib/libsmbclient.so.0
/usr/lib/sendmail
/usr/lib/libboost_signals.so.1
/usr/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework.so.1
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
/usr/lib/libboost_thread.so.1
/usr/lib/libkrbafs.so.0
/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem.so.1

would be good to kill.. I wouldnt mind losing all of /etc/gconf :).

Is there anything else that can be done?

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 02:13:52PM -0600, Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:07:22 -0400, Daniel J Walsh  wrote:
> > Stephen J. Smoogen wrote:
> > > What should users do with the files listed in /var/tmp/badcontext?
> > >
> > > For the last 3 days I have had over 10000 files listed since I
> > > installed it. I was wondering if I should be running some command
> > > after a yum upgrade that I didnt know about ;).
> > >
> > > 17287 /var/tmp/badcontext.HNjBUG2517
> > >   52272 /var/tmp/badcontext.XzqEZB4859
> > >   22518 /var/tmp/badcontext.YGZFP27816
> >
> > restorecon -f /var/tmp/badcontext.YGZFP27816
> >
> > Will fix the context, then delete the files.

[snip]
> When you say delete.. do you mean it whacks the file on the disk or
> some other copy...

Yikes!  No, running restorecon will reset the file contexts, after which
you can/should delete the /var/tmp/badcontext.blahfoo file.

Nalin