Cron after upgrade (FC6 -> FC8)

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Jouni Viikari wrote:
> Is it possible to run crontab job as a root any more on FC8?  I get this
> in /var/log/cron and job is not run:
> 
>  ... crond[2511]: (root) Unauthorized SELinux context (cron/root)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jouni
> 
> 
> # ls -lZ /var/spool/cron/
> -rw-------  root root system_u:object_r:unconfined_cron_spool_t root
> 
> # rpm -qa | grep selinux-policy-targeted
> selinux-policy-targeted-3.0.8-53.fc8
> 
> I just tried my luck (just guessing):
> 
> # chcon -t sysadm_crond_t /var/spool/cron/root 
> chcon: failed to change context of /var/spool/cron/root to
> system_u:object_r:sysadm_crond_t: Permission denied
> 
> --
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Fixed in selinux-policy-3.0.8-56
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