autorelabel process

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 01/22/2010 06:15 AM, Moray Henderson wrote:
> George Henrique Silva wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I am trying to find out how the autorelabel process works.
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> I am searching in linux Kernel code version 2.6.14 
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> I am also trying to find the autorelabel code in the  sysvinit-2.86.
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> My target is to find the process which triggers the autorelabel process
> from the flag-file /.autorelabel or who receives the kernel boot
> argument autorelabel=1
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> Is autorelabel related to SELinux only, or is it another module from
> Linux?
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> Best Regards
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> On RHEL 5, at least, it’s handled by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.  That checks
> for the /.autorelabel file or kernel command line option, and runs the
> relabel process.
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> Moray.
> "To err is human.  To purr, feline"
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It is in /etc/rc.sysinit

# grep autorelabel /etc/rc.sysinit 
	rm -f  /.autorelabel
	rm -f  /.autorelabel
    if [ -f /.autorelabel ] || strstr "$cmdline" autorelabel ; then
    if [ -f /.autorelabel ] || strstr "$cmdline" autorelabel ; then
        [ -f /.autorelabel ] || touch /.autorelabel