What should we NOT do because of SELinux?

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Fri Apr 14 12:58:38 UTC 2006


Lee Maschmeyer 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,
>
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