smb can't access its own logfiles?

[dragoran]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 19:04 +0200, dragoran wrote:
>   
>> I got this erros:
>> audit(1154259027.504:4): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=2610 
>> comm="smbd" name="cores" scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 
>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:samba_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
>> audit(1154259027.996:5): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=2613 
>> comm="nmbd" name="cores" scontext=system_u:system_r:nmbd_t:s0 
>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:samba_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
>> on a FC5 system running
>> selinux-policy-targeted-2.3.2-1.fc5 and samba-3.0.23a-1.fc5.1
>> is this a known bug/regression or should I fill a bug report?
>>     
>
> I saw this too.
>
> Samba wants to create the directories:
>
> /var/log/samba/cores/smbd
> /var/log/samba/cores/nmbd
>
> and set their modes to 0700. It dumps core into these directories if it
> detects an internal error, as described here:
>
> http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/bugreport.html
>
>   
so in short this is a policy bug right?
> Paul.
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