From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (jazzband.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.4]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10753 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:14:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id RAA07949 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:13:42 GMT Received: from smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com (smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.34]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id RAA07945 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:13:42 GMT Message-ID: <3C4857EB.1090503@netzero.net> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:14:19 -0500 From: Paul Kronenwetter MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Smalley CC: Justin Smith , selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: ext3 file system References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Actually the .journal files are only visible when they're created on a mounted filesystem. If they're created by mke2fs -j they're made invisible. So Stephen's machine was a clean install of Red Hat 7.2 and Justin's was an upgrade or a manual enhancement of an ext2 fs. -Paul Stephen Smalley wrote: >On 17 Jan 2002, Justin Smith wrote: > >>When trying to label files with the setfiles utilities, the process >>crashes when they encounter the .journal files. These are user-visible, >>but are not regular files (they are immutable in the sense that even >>root cannot change them in any way). The setfiles utilities issue a >>warning that they cannot write to .journal and quit. >> >>Any ideas? >> >>Perhaps there should be some way of exempting the .journal files from >>the labelling process. It is unfortunate that they are visible to users >>(since users cannot actually use them for anything). >> > > > > > >-- >You have received this message because you are subscribed to the selinux list. >If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with >the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message. > -- You have received this message because you are subscribed to the selinux list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.