hwclock and audit system

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Mon Aug 1 17:34:18 UTC 2005


On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Robert Locke wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 23:39 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> Am Fr, den 29.07.2005 schrieb Berna Massingill um 21:53:
>>
>>>>> >> hwclock --show | cat
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Does that help?
>>>
>>> It did for me (newly-installed FC4 system on Dell Dimension,
>>> hwclock from util-linux-2.12p-9.5).
>>>
>>> I notice also that:
>>>
>>> (*) hwclock produces output if run from one of the virtual text
>>> consoles, but not if run from an xterm (unless piped to another
>>> command, as you describe above).
>>>
>>> (*) /sbin/hwclock does not produce output, but if I copy /sbin/hwclock
>>> to, say, /root/hwclock, /root/hwclock produces output.
>>>
>>> (*) If run as /sbin/hwclock, strace output indicates that the program
>>> makes a call to ioctl, which works in a text console but not in an
>>> xterm.  If run as /root/hwclock, it doesn't make that call, and all
>>> is well.
>>
>> Interesting. Maybe one of the SELinux gurus is willing to jump in an
>> enlighten us mortals.
>>
>
> Just an FYI, but the selinux-policy-targeted package from
> updates-testing fixed this hwclock problem for me....
>
> * Thu Jul 28 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> 1.25.3-9
> - Bump for FC4
>
> * Thu Jul 28 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> 1.25.3-8
> - Fixes for cups, hwclock, system_passwd, samba_net

Now "hwclock --show | cat" works, but "hwclock --show" does not (in a 
gterm and after "su").


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