selinux and oracle

[Adam Turk]

>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?

Thanks,

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