sedispatch(8)

✨ sedispatch — like, the whole vibe ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair because we're talking about sedispatch from section 8 of the manual (yes, section 8, that's the sysadmin one 💅). She's a tiny little program with a big job and honestly? iconic.

🎀 NAME 🎀

sedispatch — the setroubleshoot audit dispatcher for SELinux Messages. that's it, that's her whole government name 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sedispatch

no flags, no arguments, no drama. she just is. main character energy fr fr ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so this manual page is here to describe the sedispatch program. short and sweet, but let's get into it.

sedispatch is an audit dispatcher. what does that mean in bestie terms? she's sitting there watching the audit messages scroll by, and she's scanning them — specifically hunting for SELinux AVC messages. 👀

and when she finds one? she doesn't just scream about it, no no. she formats them into a dbus message and sends it off to setroubleshootd. like a little messenger fairy 🧚 carrying your SELinux problems to the one who can actually explain them.

so the pipeline is giving:

1. audit messages come in 📥
2. she scans them for SELinux AVC messages 🔍
3. she formats them into a dbus message 🎁
4. she sends it to setroubleshootd 📤

periodt. that's the whole flow 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This man page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>. thank you king for the documentation 🫡💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• audispd(8)
• auditd(8)

go read those too, they're the friend group iykyk 🦋

and that's a wrap on sedispatch(8) — dated 20100915, which is honestly vintage but she still slays ⭐