Selinux woes

[Paul Howarth]

Dan Track wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>> Dan Track wrote:
>> > Hi All
>> >
>> > I'm having trouble running software, especially the cgi scripts. I
>> > keep getting the following denial messages:
>> >
>> > audit(1153994541.663:20): avc:  denied  { execute_no_trans } for
>> > pid=9258 comm="httpd" name="status.cgi" dev=sda2 ino=19426
>> > scontext=root:system_r:httpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:lib_t
>> > tclass=file
>> >
>> > The files are located in /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/
>> >
>> > Could some please help me figure this out. I've started to read
>> > through the selinux manual but its a huge climb and would appreciate
>> > ways to solve the above.
>>
>> You should read "man httpd_selinux", which has notes on running CGI
>> programs under SELinux.
>>
>> You generally need to set the SELinux context type of CGI programs to
>> httpd_sys_script_exec_t:
>>
>> # chcon -R -t httpd_sys_script_exec_t /usr/lib/nagios/cgi
>>
>> Is this the nagios version in Fedora Extras? If it is, failure to work
>> with SELinux enabled should be bugzilla-ed.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
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> Hi Paul,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I manged the above before I read you rmessage.
> Thanks for the heads up though. Would you be able to help on the next
> "search" error message.

It's being denied access to search the /var/log directory to see what's 
in it.

> Just to add this is a nagios install from source.

Is there some particular reason you're not using the package in Extras, 
which *may* have solved these problems already?


Paul.