FC5 services that will not start

[Chris Jones]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
>> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 23:16 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>>>  
>>>> I am using FC5 on a generic Athlon x64 PC. I am having problems 
>>>> with several services.
>>>>
>>>> 1. Dovecot refuses to start. When I attempt to start the service I 
>>>> get a message in /var/log/messages as follows:
>>>> Jun 25 23:05:38 bilbo kernel: audit(1151273138.255:415): avc:  
>>>> denied  { create } for  pid=1480 comm="dovecot" 
>>>> scontext=user_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 
>>>> tcontext=user_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 tclass=socket
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone here give me a hint on what I need to do to get this 
>>>> working? >From the log message, this seems to be something to do 
>>>> with selinux.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Indeed it is. Some more diagnostic info would be useful. Can you post
>>> the output of:
>>>
>>> # ausearch -a 415
>>>   
>> produces the output >
>> [root at bilbo network-scripts]# ausearch -a 415
>> -bash: ausearch: command not found
>>
>> Clearly, I am missing this application. Where should it be? Which RPM?
>
> It's in the "audit" package.
>
Now when I run this, I get the following response:>
[root at bilbo network-scripts]# ausearch -a 415
<no matches>

>>>> 2. On Samba, I experience a different, but possibly related 
>>>> problem. Samba starts, but I see the following message in the log 
>>>> every few minutes:
>>>>
>>>> Jun 25 23:09:25 bilbo smbd[1502]:   Denied connection from  
>>>> (192.168.0.5)
>>>> Jun 25 23:11:50 bilbo smbd[1513]: [2006/06/25 23:11:50, 0] 
>>>> lib/access.c:check_access(328)
>>>>
>>>> The other PC referred to in the log message is unable to even see 
>>>> the linux share.
>>>>
>>>> Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Do you have a "hosts allow" line in /etc/samba/smb.conf ?
>>>   
>> Yes. it reads >     hosts allow = 192.168.0 127.
>> which has always worked in the past.
>
> Try this:
> hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.

I have changed smb.conf to reflect that and now get (on my Windoze box), 
"Access is denied"
and in /var/log/messages, the following entries result from that attempt.

Jun 26 15:52:35 bilbo kernel: audit(1151333555.491:86): avc:  denied  { 
read } for  pid=7352 comm="smbd" name="home" dev=dm-0 ino=24739841 
scontext=user_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 tclass=dir
Jun 26 15:52:35 bilbo kernel: audit(1151333555.571:87): avc:  denied  { 
read } for  pid=7352 comm="smbd" name="home" dev=dm-0 ino=24739841 
scontext=user_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 tclass=dir
Jun 26 15:52:35 bilbo kernel: audit(1151333555.583:88): avc:  denied  { 
read } for  pid=7352 comm="smbd" name="home" dev=dm-0 ino=24739841 
scontext=user_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 tclass=dir

>
> Paul.
>
We seem to be getting closer, but I am still stumped.

-- 
Chris Jones