FAGENRULES(8)

💖 FAGENRULES — bestie edition 💖

okay so. this is fagenrules(8), a System Administration Utilities girlie from section 8 of the manual, and she is literally the glue holding your fapolicyd rules together. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

fagenrules — a script that merges component fapolicyd rule files. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

fagenrules [--check] [--load]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay bestie, listen. fagenrules is a script that merges all the component fapolicyd rules files it can find. where do they live? in the fapolicyd rules directory, /etc/fapolicyd/rules.d. and where does the merged masterpiece go? straight into /etc/fapolicyd/compiled.rules. iconic behavior, honestly.

now here's the vibe check on which files get processed: component fapolicyd rule files must end in .rules in order to be processed. that's the entry fee. everything else chillin' in /etc/fapolicyd/rules.d gets ignored — not invited to the party, no hard feelings. 🙈

the files are concatenated in order, based on their natural sort (peep the -v option of ls(1) if you wanna see how that sorting works), and then they get stripped of empty and comment (#) lines. glow-up via deletion, we love to see it.

the generated file is then validated with the daemon policy parser before installation — like a bouncer at the door checking IDs. and if it differs from the existing compiled rules, it gets synced and atomically renamed into /etc/fapolicyd/compiled.rules. why atomic, you ask? so the previous compiled rules remain in place if validation or installation fails. safety first, bestie, always. 🫶

and finally — fagenrules prints the final SHA-256 ruleset identity when the installed compiled rules are unchanged or successfully updated. she's keeping receipts. ⭐

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --check — test if rules have changed and need updating without overwriting compiled.rules. look but don't touch energy. 👀
• --load — load old or newly built rules into the daemon. feeding the daemon, bestie. 🍓

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🦋 FILES 🦋

/etc/fapolicyd/rules.d/
/etc/fapolicyd/compiled.rules

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• fapolicyd.rules(5)
• fapolicyd-cli(8)
• fapolicyd(8)

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✨ bestie reminder: this page is brought to you by Red Hat, dated Nov 2021. periodt. 💜

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