SELinux Preventing Web Access to apcupsd multimon.cgi
Rick Stevens
ricks at nerd.com
Thu Mar 19 20:55:17 UTC 2009
Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I'm using SELinux set to enforcing. apcaccess works
> fine and I can see the output from the ups. I have port 3551 tcp opened
> in the firewall (I think I need this to get the connection to the ups)
> and have the Apache web server enabled. I can access the web page from
> other computers and run multimon.cgi - it displays the table headers but
> won't display the ups info. It gives an error:
>
> Not available: upsfetch: tcp-open failed for 127.0.0.1 port 3551
>
> I've checked SELINUX troubleshooter and it's definitely multimon.cgi
> interacting with httpd. I tried following what the troubleshooter said
> to make a new policy but I cannot get it to work. There is no /tmp/avc
> directory. Any ideas on how to fix this?
IIRC, "# setsebool httpd_enable_cgi on" does the trick.
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