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Hi I am new to the SELINUX and I have noticed the command setsebool take longer time than other linux commands. Such as:

setsebool -P ftp_home_dir ON

Out of curiosity I want to know why "setsebool" command needs such a long time to complete the task?

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time setsebool -P ftp_home_dir ON. How long do you consider a long time? – jordanm Mar 13 at 5:05
tried the command as above and "real" time is about 30 sec. Usually a normal linux command time setenforce 0will give about 0.011 sec "real" time. I feel 30 sec is a bit long and wondering what is happening at the backend? – Xianlin Mar 13 at 8:59
strace -f setsebool -P ftp_home_dir ON and see where exactly it's taking its sweet time. – Flup Mar 13 at 15:14
I think I need more programming knowledge to understand the strace output..I guess it is because selinux involves too many "deep" level changes on the linux system and that is why it takes so much time to complete one command. – Xianlin Mar 15 at 7:15

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