Are you referring to the dot highlighted in red?
That indicates that the server uses SELinux and that the file has a SELinux security context.
In fact this is almost correct: the dot represents "extended attributes" being in place and they might come from SElinux or not. There might also be a "+" displayed which represents ACLs being in place. To get the extended attributes issue:
In general i suggest switching off SElinux and never ever enable it again. It is a PITA and without any real value anyways.
I'm really new to Unix and its commands. I tried to move a file from the home directory to another one but I didn't type the full name of the new directory. I think the computer created another directory in the home directory and put it in there. However, now I can't access it and it doesn't even... (3 Replies)
how is it possible for a directory to be empty and still have a size greater than 0 in bytes...
i made a shell script that shows info about all files/directories and this is what came up
the last one is the size, here its showing 1024
in the for loop i did something like
for h in * .*; do
... (4 Replies)
Since I'm usually on windows I've came across different shells like Cygwin, Hamilton, and MKS. I've been working in csh most of the time, so porting scripts from one shell to another can be fairly annoying and confusing.
When specifying a directory I noticed that certain shells do not recognize... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am using Red Hat OS 5.0, is there any way that i can password protect directories. I know i can change permission so that no other user can access the content, but sometimes in my office environment i need to share vnc terminal with other people from my login itself. So i want that if user... (1 Reply)
Need help
Please help on how to write a script which can echo timestamp, size of subdirectories in a specific path from multiple Linux servers to a text file.
I can ssh with a common user to all the servers from a build box.
Basic idea what I had was:
ssh <commonuser>@<each box>
cd... (1 Reply)
OS: Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.2
Hypervisor: VMWare workstation 9
I created a VM and attached a 7gb virtual disk to it.
Using fdisk , I partioned the disk like below. The filesystems mounted on this is working fine. But I am seeing the message
Partition n does not end on cylinder boundary.... (2 Replies)
I'm new to Linux and trying to port
a c++ program from windows.
what I'm trying to do is copy a file to a directory off
the root of the drive
First off the program is located and running from
Drive:\Base\Web\Today\Program.exe
And trying to copy to:
Drive:\Base\cpics
windows... (10 Replies)
I have searched this quite a long time but couldn't find the right method for me to use. I need to assign read write permission to the user for specific directories and it's sub directories and files. I do not want to use ACL. This is for Solaris. Please help. (1 Reply)
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fsetfilecon
setfilecon(3) SELinux API documentation setfilecon(3)NAME
setfilecon, fsetfilecon, lsetfilecon - set SELinux security context of a file
SYNOPSIS
#include <selinux/selinux.h>
int setfilecon(const char *path, security_context_t con);
int lsetfilecon(const char *path, security_context_t con);
int fsetfilecon(int fd, security_context_t con);
DESCRIPTION
setfilecon sets the security context of the file system object.
lsetfilecon is identical to setfilecon, except in the case of a symbolic link, where the link itself has it's context set, not the file
that it refers to.
fsetfilecon is identical to setfilecon, only the open file pointed to by filedes (as returned by open(2)) has it's context set in place of
path.
RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned. On failure, -1 is returned and errno is set appropriately.
If there is insufficient space remaining to store the extended attribute, errno is set to either ENOSPC, or EDQUOT if quota enforce- ment
was the cause.
If extended attributes are not supported by the filesystem, or are dis- abled, errno is set to ENOTSUP.
The errors documented for the stat(2) system call are also applicable here.
SEE ALSO selinux(3), freecon(3), getfilecon(3), setfscreatecon(3)russell@coker.com.au 1 January 2004 setfilecon(3)