awstats munged httpd rights in SElinux, how to fix?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Jul 30 22:12:58 UTC 2008


Greetings;

Wanting to see who might have visited my simple web page, I installed awstats 
from the fedora repo today.

The awstats selinux helper seems to be an empty file, yumex win't dl it or 
install it even when checked.

>From the yumex screen:
7:59:02 : Package Queue:
17:59:02 :  Packages to install
17:59:02 :  ---> awstats-selinux-6.7-1.fc8.noarch 
17:59:02 : Preparing for install/remove/update
17:59:02 : --> Preparing for install
17:59:02 : Package awstats-selinux is obsoleted by awstats, trying to install 
awstats-6.8-1.fc8.noarch instead
17:59:02 : Package awstats-6.8-1.fc8.noarch already installed and latest 
version
17:59:06 : Error in Dependency Resolution
17:59:06 : Success - empty transaction

which is self-explanatory.

But on attempting to look at my page at localhost, I get connection refused.

So I as root, do:service httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]
Starting httpd: (13)Permission denied: httpd: could not open error log 
file /etc/httpd/logs/error_log.
Unable to open logs
                                                           [FAILED]

And an selinux denial that says I can fix it with this:
#> setsebool -P httpd_unified=1 

But I've now executed that line several times without success.

I've also gone through the httpd stuff and made much of it 0644 and owned by 
apache:apache.

Obviously I'm suffering from the local heat and missing the flashing red light 
here, so what is next folks?  It was all working AFAIK before I installed 
awstats, when running kernel 2.6.26 just yesterday, but now booted to 
2.6.27-rc1.  Dunno which is the culprit.  Help!

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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