Abnormal Apache behavior.

[Joe Orton]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:43:30AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:15 +0100, Joe Orton wrote:
> > Eh?  I thought the transition happens upon exec of httpd regardless of 
> > who performs the exec.  Empirical evidence suggests that's the case 
> > anyway...
> > 
> > [root at tango ~]# service httpd stop
> > Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
> > [root at tango ~]# apachectl start
> > [root at tango ~]# ps axZ | grep httpd
> > root:system_r:httpd_t           30536 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
> 
> On FC4, apachectl start leaves it running in unconfined_t.  In FC3,
> since the system starts in unconfined_t (so both rc scripts and user
> shells are in the same domain), there is no distinction, so you wouldn't
> see a difference there.

OK - can that be changed?  I'd really much rather that apachectl, the 
init script, and direct invocation of /usr/sbin/httpd all had the same 
behaviour, as has been (mostly) the case forever.

joe