[Dirvish] Dirvish, rsync and SELinux

J.P. Hendrix jph4dotcom at xs4all.nl
Fri Apr 18 06:06:33 UTC 2014


Since a couple of days I am facing a problem with a single Dirvish 
client that creates huge backup sets every single day. 18GB vs 40MB.

When I take a look at the client, I notice it has several files with 
SE-attributes. My dirvish-server does not use SELinux at all.

# sestatus
SELinux status:                 disabled

# ls -Zl | head | column -t 
 

total        61168 
 

dr-xr-x---.  9      system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0      root  root 
4096   nov  1   12:09  . 

dr-xr-xr-x.  24     system_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0             root  root 
4096   feb  10  09:56  ..
-rw-------.  1      system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0      root  root 
8169   sep  10  2012   anaconda-ks.cfg
drwxr-xr-x.  2      unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0  root  root 
4096   feb  10  09:55  .autoinstaller
-rw-------   1      ?                                      root  root 
6527   sep  28  2012   bak.authorized_keys
-rw-------.  1      unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0  root  root 
18680  apr  10  07:15  .bash_history

I suspect that rsync dropping the SE-attributes is the cause of the 
daily near-full backup sets.

How can I solve this situation? Can I make rsync not  check the 
SE-attributes for deciding to copy files?



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