Any idea what causes this message?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 07 January 2008, Paul Howarth wrote:
>Knute Johnson wrote:
>>> Its a mislabeled file.  /var/log/btmp should be labeled faillog_t
>>>
>>> restorecon -R -v /var/log
>>>
>>> to fix up everything in /var/log.  btmp is used whenever there is a
>>> login failure (I think only failure...)
>>>
>>> not sure how it got mislabeled (what is supposed to create it, anyone
>>> know?  do you remember at some time untaring a bunch of files
>>> in /var/log?   or cp'ing in files?  somehow it got created without the
>>> 'right' label) but it is occasional because people only occasionally
>>> screw up logging in and you get the denial because it is mislabeled.
>>> Fix the label and you should be good from now on.
>>>
>>> -Eric
>>
>> Thanks, it was mislabeled.  I don't know how but it's fixed now.
>
>It'll be logrotate.
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427274
>
>Paul.
Humm, new package soon I hope?

Thanks
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