Trouble with syslogd and named

[Daniel J Walsh]

Steve G wrote:
>> OPTIONS_SYSLOGD="-m 0 -a /var/named/chroot/dev/log"
>>     
>
>   
> It is possible and even desirable for syslog to be able to create a log device.
> Maybe syslogd needs to be patched to set the context of the log device? I think
> that's the only flexible solution since an admin could give any path as an
> argument to -a.
>
> -Steve
>
>   
No if you want to change the file context, you need to use semanage.  
The problem here is that syslog  is not allowed to search through 
/var/named directories.  For this you need custom policy.

Use something like audit2allow -M mysyslog -i /var/log/audit/audit.log 
to generate the policy.
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