New SELinux User

[Linda Finch]

I am trying to get up to speed with SELinux however as I am also a novice 
Linux user (my OS knowledge has been with other systems) this is a very 
steep learning curve!  To ease the pain, I purchased the SELinux by example 
book and have been trying to work through the example policy module for the 
IRC daemon.

I set up a standard FC4 workstation with the required strict src policy, IRC 
etc and proceeded to follow through the book however I cannot get it to 
compile.  When I enter the make && make install && make load command I get 
the following error:

make && make install && make load
/usr/bin/checkpolicy  -o policy.21 policy.conf
/usr/bin/checkpolicy:  loading policy configuration from policy.conf
domains/program/ircd.te:28:ERROR 'duplicate declaration of type/attribute' 
at token ';' on line 290384:
type ircd_log_t, file_type, sysadmfile, logfile;
#line 28
checkpolicy:  error(s) encountered while parsing configuration
make: *** [policy.21] Error 1


I've double checked the ircd.te file, looked at the policy.conf file and 
can't see anything wrong.  Is this error immediately obvious to anyone 
(without knowing the example in the book of course!)?  If so, please help!  
Apologies if there is something simple that I've not done - as I say, I'm a 
novice user!  I've also had a go with the reference policy example in the 
book for FC5 and couldn't get that to compile either.  That gives an error 
with the generated_definitions.conf file.  I downloaded the most uptodate 
version of the refpolicy from Tresys' site but maybe there are other patches 
I need?  Again, this was a std FC5 install.

Thanks in advance

Linda

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