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From: Mr Dash Four <mr.dash.four@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: decipher the secmark number from nf_conntrack/ip_conntrack
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:56:45 +0100
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>>> I use it a lot via 'cat' and Shorewall (via 'shorewall show
>>> connections'). I use it for one particular reason - to track
>>> SELinux contexts (text, NOT numbers!) on active connections. So, am
>>> I going to see the SELinux context for each connection in text
>>> without the need to use conntrack-utils or not (simple 'yes' or
>>> 'no' answer will do)?
>>>       
>
> That's like saying we need /proc/self/df just so that we can know the
> fill state of disks without resorting to a userspace tool (oooh~ god forbid!).
>   
What is that suppose to mean? Are you suggesting that for the dubious 
privilege of seeing secmark=<selctx> - the way it should have been 
developed in the first place - as oppose to secmark=XXX as was the case 
up until now, I have to install your set of tools? I don't think so!