web-based chat server

[Eric Tanguy]

Le mercredi 17 août 2005 à 12:35 +0100, Paul Howarth a écrit :
> Eric Tanguy wrote:
> > Le mercredi 17 août 2005 à 12:37 +0200, Eric Tanguy a écrit :
> > 
> >>Le mardi 16 août 2005 à 15:00 +0200, Alexander Dalloz a écrit :
> >>
> >>>Am Di, den 16.08.2005 schrieb Eric Tanguy um 13:45:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Ok thanks you are are right. Do you know a good irc server for FC4
> >>>>available by repo or at least rpm ?
> >>>
> >>>>Eric Tanguy | Nantes, France 
> >>>
> >>>Maybe http://yarrow.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=740 is a good starting
> >>>point. Fetch the src.rpm, update the spec to use the current release and
> >>>rebuild the rpm. (I can not recommend one IRC server over the other; was
> >>>always only a client user.)
> >>>
> >>>Alexander
> >>>
> >>
> >>In fact it seems too difficult for me to adpat this spec to the
> >>irc-hybrid current version. So i downloaded
> >>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ircd-hybrid/ircd-hybrid-7.1.1.tgz and
> >>use the spec file in it (in contrib) and all is fine. Very easy to
> >>configure and i was able connect to my irc server using xchat but i was
> >>unable to connect to it using cgiirc http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/ i
> >>obtained a permission denied on the web page but if i disabled selinux i
> >>was able to connect. So i went to selinux parameters and activate "Allow
> >>HTTPD scripts to connect to the network". And now i can connect to my
> >>irc server. But i still have some problems with cgiirc ( i can connect
> >>and see what is said but i can't have any action). I will go further
> >>next week. Hope this can help.
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > If i disable selinux i can edit options view help and chat. So there is
> > still some problem with selinux context. If someone have an idea ?
> 
> As always with SELinux issues, look for the avc messages in 
> /var/log/messages, or /var/log/audit/audit.log if you're running auditd.
> 
> Paul.
> 
thanks but it's quite difficult to understand /var/log/audit/audit.log!
The only lines i found in this file refering my problem (i think ...)
are : 
type=AVC msg=audit(1124298167.251:3778508): avc:  denied  { read } for
pid=3907 comm="irc.cgi" name="formats" dev=dm-0 ino=8323109
scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_script_exec_t tclass=dir
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1124298167.251:3778508): arch=40000003 syscall=5
success=no exit=-13 a0=94586b8 a1=18800 a2=94586b8 a3=9430fe0 items=1
pid=3907 auid=4294967295 uid=48 gid=48 euid=48 suid=48 fsuid=48 egid=48
sgid=48 fsgid=48 comm="irc.cgi" exe="/usr/bin/perl"
type=CWD msg=audit(1124298167.251:3778508):
cwd="/var/www/cgi-bin/cgiirc"
type=PATH msg=audit(1124298167.251:3778508): item=0 name="formats"
flags=103  inode=8323109 dev=fd:00 mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00
type=AVC msg=audit(1124298171.144:3812320): avc:  denied  { connectto }
for  pid=3922 comm="client-perl.cgi" name="sock"
scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
tcontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t tclass=unix_stream_socket
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1124298171.144:3812320): arch=40000003
syscall=102 success=no exit=-13 a0=3 a1=bfc86690 a2=45b3bc0 a3=6e
items=1 pid=3922 auid=4294967295 uid=48 gid=48 euid=48 suid=48 fsuid=48
egid=48 sgid=48 fsgid=48 comm="client-perl.cgi" exe="/usr/bin/perl"
type=AVC_PATH msg=audit(1124298171.144:3812320):
path="/tmp/cgiirc-0coinr388dt/sock"
type=SOCKADDR msg=audit(1124298171.144:3812320):
saddr=01002F746D702F6367696972632D30636F696E7233383864742F736F636B0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

But i can't understand where is the problem.
If someone could help me ...
Thanks

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