Enabling SELinux Alert notification

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Dylan Graham wrote:
> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> What avc's are you seeing in your audit.log?  Sounds like an
>> execstack/execmem error.
> 
> type=AVC msg=audit(1191835751.169:39): avc:  denied  { write } for
> pid=4885 comm="X" path="/var/log/nvidia-installer.log" dev=dm-0
> ino=3507028 scontext=root:system_r:xdm_xserver_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> tcontext=root:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file
> 
> type=AVC msg=audit(1191835798.942:40): avc:  denied  { write } for
> pid=6285 comm="ldconfig" path="/var/log/nvidia-installer.log" dev=dm-0
> ino=3507028 scontext=root:system_r:ldconfig_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> tcontext=root:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file
> 
> 
So when X starts up it writes to a nvida log files?

You can label these as xserver_log_t and this should work.

# semanage fcontext -a -t xserver_log_t /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
#  restorecon -v /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
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