-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, Sorry I did not mention this earlier. This is a Debian machine. I was not aware that they had their own policies. lrfurtado:~# dpkg -l | grep selinux ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries ii python-selinux 2.0.65-5 Python bindings to SELinux shared libraries ii selinux-basics 0.3.5 SELinux basic support ii selinux-policy-default 2:0.0.20080702-6 Strict and Targeted variants of the SELinux ii selinux-policy-dev 2:0.0.20080702-6 Headers from the SELinux reference policy fo ii selinux-utils 2.0.65-5 SELinux utility programs lrfurtado:~# dpkg -l | grep logrotate ii logrotate 3.7.1-5 Log rotation utility lrfurtado:~# cat /etc/debian_version 5.0.7 lrfurtado:~# On 11-03-24 14:16, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 03/24/2011 02:08 PM, Luciano Furtado wrote: >> Hey Guys, > > >> Any ideas why logrotate is trying to access /root as shown by the avc >> message bellow: > >> lrfurtado:~# ausearch -ts today >> ---- >> time->Thu Mar 24 06:25:45 2011 >> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1300947945.464:26): arch=40000003 syscall=5 >> success=no exit=-13 a0=88404c0 a1=8000 a2=0 a3=8000 items=0 ppid=13192 >> pid=13193 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 >> sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="logrotate" >> exe="/usr/sbin/logrotate" >> subj=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) >> type=AVC msg=audit(1300947945.464:26): avc: denied { search } for >> pid=13193 comm="logrotate" name="root" dev=xvda ino=401409 >> scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 >> tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:unconfined_home_dir_t:s0 tclass=dir > > > >> is this the issue described here : > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471463 > >> For now I have added : > >> allow logrotate_t unconfined_home_dir_t:dir search; > >> to my local module to shut up the avc messages. IS there any to stop >> logrotate from generating those AVC messages other then adding the allow >> rule above? > > >> Best Regards. >> Luciano > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNi6zAAAoJENgwSj9ZOOwrZ/4H/25s63SkrXOTYwOMWhRMvo4U 6vn0Ycj6/yA6vum3S1Lsa5Vx4hWyt86Qwt+ZQLxyIyeo68cw4hjQN6vkfKI5t234 55c1MpcccjvzaGTaQGXGR1E7k9KQSVeupXANBQKasyYtNOlieeI5cxnnQDldcwcM KW6W89rXwhRX+tWt9fWpZjgH2H2kpO/swUc4WIgWtMYS6PCxTnfxfau6qin5H08l K3ay+c90Un30Jwq9Cu7B6W9LVCO+z8PXms6UtxdjNh6gkwd6pS2YOZd4NGrPbimF +bsyRdUcRjBTdyZB3GFotgZfQOUVawYMeYtUVsUJMyd/UlPEibKncUrTDx8GPyQ= =fN/w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux