restorecon command not found

zhaidoudou123 · 01-07-2012, 09:45 PM

Hello
When I use "service iptables save", it always tells me "restorecon command not found"
And I type "/sbin/restorecon", it tells me the same too.
I'm using Centos 6.0 32bit
How can I do?
thx.

T3RM1NVT0R · 01-07-2012, 10:42 PM

Hi zhaidoudou123,

Is this happening with a fresh install? Or, this started happening after you made any changes? The reason I am asking because I am not able to find the link between restorecon and iptables.

Run the following command and paste the output:

1. service iptables save
2. tail /var/log/messages
3. ls -l /sbin/ | grep restore

zhaidoudou123 · 01-08-2012, 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3RM1NVT0R

Hi zhaidoudou123,

Is this happening with a fresh install? Or, this started happening after you made any changes? The reason I am asking because I am not able to find the link between restorecon and iptables.

Run the following command and paste the output:

1. service iptables save
2. tail /var/log/messages
3. ls -l /sbin/ | grep restore

Thank you for your reply.
Maybe my install is not complete,so I copied one from another computer,
Now it works, thank you.

TheHoxxy · 01-14-2012, 06:27 AM

Hello

I have this problem on my VPS (CentOS 6 32bit).

1. service iptables save:

Code:

iptables: Saving firewall rules to /etc/sysconfig/iptables: /etc/init.d/iptables: line 268: restorecon: command not found
                                                           [FAILED]

2. tail /var/log/messages:

Code:

Jan 13 22:56:40 server xinetd[1439]: Exiting...
Jan 13 22:56:41 server kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Jan 13 22:56:41 server rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.2" x-pid="1413" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] exiting on signal 15.
Jan 13 22:56:49 server kernel: imklog 4.6.2, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jan 13 22:56:49 server rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.6.2" x-pid="1435" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
Jan 13 22:56:50 server xinetd[1461]: xinetd Version 2.3.14 started with libwrap loadavg labeled-networking options compiled in.
Jan 13 22:56:50 server xinetd[1461]: Started working: 0 available services
Jan 13 22:57:04 server saslauthd[1710]: detach_tty      : master pid is: 1710
Jan 13 22:57:04 server saslauthd[1710]: ipc_init        : listening on socket: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
Jan 14 03:36:02 server logrotate: ALERT exited abnormally with [1]

3. ls -l /sbin/ | grep restore

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Jan  8 20:54 iptables-restore -> iptables-multi

How to fix it?

T3RM1NVT0R · 01-14-2012, 06:46 AM

Hi TheHoxxy,

The reason you getting that error message because you are misisng the restorecon file. Here is the out that I get when I run ls -l /sbin | grep restore

Code:

ls -l /sbin/ | grep restore
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     15 Jul 31 05:43 ip6tables-restore -> ip6tables-multi
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     14 Jul 31 05:42 iptables-restore -> iptables-multi
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      8 Jul 31 05:48 restorecon -> setfiles
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      3 Jul 31 05:49 vgcfgrestore -> lvm

restorecon is provided by policycoreutils package. You can try uninstalling and re-installing policycoreutils package and see if you get restorecon file under /sbin

TheHoxxy · 01-14-2012, 06:50 AM

Thank you T3RM1NVT0R, it works great now

T3RM1NVT0R · 01-14-2012, 06:51 AM

You're welcome. Enjoy linux!!!