On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:26, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 13:12 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I upgraded to FC3 this weekend. I always try and go with the defaults > > on a new install, because when fielding bug reports for my various > > projects I prefer to make the defaults work first so bug reporters and I > > have a common ground to work with. > > > > Since the default SELINUX policy is "targeted" I chose this, bracing > > myself :) > > > > My first task was getting all my locally hosted websites to run. > > > > I have a few virtualhosts in my /home/thomas/www directory. When > > starting apache, the service script complains about these directories > > missing. > > > > Please note that I have a separate /home partition on hda6; I don't know > > if this affects any policy (yet). > > Indeed, this is the root of the problem. Your /home partition isn't > labeled since it was carried over from an earlier installation, so it > gets the default_t type. Personally, I would have done: > > restorecon -v -R /home > > I don't think you would have seen this particular issue if you'd done a > fresh installation. > > See also this question: > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/index.html#id2963454 restoreceon -v -R /home is the best solution. fixfiles doesn't take a path as an option, although I thought it did in the past (which is why I had it in the FAQ). This answer in the FAQ will be updated to give the two answers, preferring restorecon for just relabeling a particular directory path, and fixfiles for ensuring that every file on the system is properly labeled. thx - Karsten -- Karsten Wade, RHCE, Tech Writer a lemon is just a melon in disguise http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41
