selinux and oracle

[Daniel J Walsh]

Adam Turk wrote:
>> From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>
>>> Adam Turk wrote:
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>> I was able to install Oracle 10gR2 on RHEL4U4 with selinux in 
>>> targeted enforcing mode.  No selinux messages in /var/log/messages 
>>> or dmesg.  I found a couple of scripts that will start and shutdown 
>>> the database and enterprise manager on boot and shutdown.  I had a 
>>> couple of problems with this part and I am not sure if selinux is 
>>> the problem or not.  Let me explain then I will post the code.
>>>
>>> I created a file called oracle in /etc/rc.d/init.d.  I ran chkconfig 
>>> oracle reset.  I then ran service oracle start.  The database 
>>> wouldn't start.  oracle calls the script dbstart which needs 
>>> ORACLE_HOME defined.  If I add a export ORACLE_HOME=/path/to/oracle 
>>> to dbstart everything works.  If I remove the export then the 
>>> database won't start.  I was under the assumption that when I set 
>>> ORACLE_HOME in oracle it would be able to be used by dbstart.  This 
>>> does not appear to be true.  Is this a selinux problem, or did I 
>>> misunderstand something?  To get the database to start I added the 
>>> export ORACLE_HOME to /etc/profile.  Also when I do a init 6 or init 
>>> 0 the oracle service doesn't shutdown i.e. no shutting down oracle 
>>> ................
>>>
>> I would doubt this is an SELinux problem.  You can always check for 
>> avc messages in /var/log/messages.  You can also temporarily turn off 
>> enforcing mode "setenforce 0", then try it.  If it is still broken 
>> while SELinux is in permissive mode, it is most likely not an SELinux 
>> problem.
>
> SELinux is not causing the environmnet variable problem I discribed.  
> I will leave the ORACLE_HOME in /etc/profile and call it done.
>
> On a side note, shouldn't selinux messages go into a /var/log/selinux 
> file instead of messages?
>
In RHEL5 they go to /var/log/audit/audit.log if auditing is turned on.
> Thanks,
>
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