Re: Fedora 16 Directory Listing

On 21 April 2012 19:42, Mick Farmer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear GLLUGers,
>
> Just curious, does anyone know what the period in this
> column    | indicates?
>
> [mick@lapwing ~]$ ls -l
> total 52
> drwxrwxr-x   4 mick mick 4096 Jun  8  2011 Birkbeck
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Mar 20 18:21 Desktop
> drwxr-xr-x.  3 mick mick 4096 Apr 17 14:57 Documents
> drwxr-xr-x.  8 mick mick 4096 Apr 20 19:43 Downloads
> drwxr-xr-x  11 mick mick 4096 Nov  5 01:54 Firefox
> drwx------   3 mick mick 4096 May 31  2011 Mail
> drwxr-xr-x.  4 mick mick 4096 May 25  2011 Music
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Dec 18 23:42 Pictures
> drwxrwxr-x   2 mick mick 4096 Mar 22 22:30 Plan7
> drwxrwxr-x   3 mick mick 4096 Feb 28 00:24 Polynomials
> drwxr-xr-x.  2 mick mick 4096 Jan  2  2011 Public
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mick mick 1658 Apr 16 18:16 temp
> -rw-rw-r--   1 mick mick 1806 Apr 16 14:45 temp~
> [mick@lapwing ~]$
>
> Regards,
>
> Mick
>

It means that SELinux has labeled the file/directory and thus its
policies are being applied to them.

Try listing with "ls -lZ" without panicking at the output :-)
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