What should we NOT do because of SELinux?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 21:12:40 UTC 2006


On 4/12/06, Lee Maschmeyer <lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu> wrote:
>
> Perhaps a stupid question but still I'm uncertain...
>
> I'm getting "avc:  denied" messages for all 6 mingetty invocations before
> login, though the system works fine afterward. I think these may have been
> triggered by an attempt I made to start the program that drives my braille
> display (brltty). Up to now I've been able to start this from
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit by invoking brltty after rc.sysinit was reinvoked
> under
> initlog. Not seeing anything about initlog near the beginning of FC5's
> rc.sysinit I stuck in the command anyway. It didn't work and I removed it,
> ultimately putting it in rc.local instead. But even though I removed
> rc.sysinit~ so the directory should look normal, perhaps except for the
> last
> change date on rc.sysinit, I still get all these "avc:  denied" messages.
>
> Did I cause this by messing with rc.sysinit? As I continue to go through
> the
> SELinux FAQ will I find out what to do to dispense with this - artwork?
> :-)
>
> Many thanks,
>
> --


 You should be able to just tell the system to relabel. Forgot how to do
that. (I disable SELinux on my desktops - as much as I like it)
--
As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
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