How do I relabel files?

awmian · 09-04-2008, 11:41 AM

I have Fedora9 installed on my laptop. Today I installed HPlip to enable my printer. The installation went perfect. Even a test page was printed. However, after rebooting the system I am unable to print and get the following Error/Msg:

Quote:

Summary:

SELinux is preventing the python from using potentially mislabeled files (/root/.hplip/hplip.conf).

Detailed Description:

[SELinux is in permissive mode, the operation would have been denied but was permitted due to permissive mode.]

Allowing Access:

If you want python to access this files, you need to relabel them using restorecon -v '/root/.hplip/hplip.conf'. You might want to relabel the entire
directory using restorecon -R -v '/root/.hplip'.

When I tried using the above command, I get the following output:

Code:

[awm@localhost ~]$ restorecon -R -v '/root/.hplip'
bash: restorecon: command not found
[awm@localhost ~]$

Can someone pls help me with this relabeling stuff?

amani · 09-04-2008, 11:46 AM

Start a root shell and try that... of course.

You may need the full path of the command too.

awmian · 09-04-2008, 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amani

Start a root shell and try that... of course.

You may need the full path of the command too.

root shell - you mean i login as root ? I've tried doing this but still getting the same msg:

Code:

[root@localhost ~]# restorecon -R -v '/root/.hplip'
bash: restorecon: command not found
[root@localhost ~]#

I'm sure you'd have notice i'm a real novice at linux so you'll need to guide me a bit in detail.

chrism01 · 09-04-2008, 08:16 PM

As he said, try the full path to restorecon. Should be /sbin/restorecon (as per my F8)

ia64processor · 09-05-2008, 02:29 AM

# touch /.autorelabel

It will relabel all files on next reboot if SELinux is enabled.

samnjugu · 09-08-2008, 11:50 PM

try using su - instead of just su, when switching to root. As the first one puts you in the root enviroment where this command is available unlike the last one. This is what i have to do on my machine when running restorecon cmd's.