-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, After recent policy upgrade (selinux-policy-targeted-3.10.0-145.fc17.noarch) I noticed some cron jobs are failing and generate selinux avc: time->Fri Aug 24 04:02:05 2012 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1345780925.499:656): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=no exit=-13 a0=404a07 a1=0 a2=0 a3=0 items=0 ppid=21070 pid=21091 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=85 comm="tmpwatch" exe="/usr/sbin/tmpwatch" subj=system_u:system_r:tmpreaper_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) type=AVC msg=audit(1345780925.499:656): avc: denied { read } for pid=21091 comm="tmpwatch" name="root" dev="dm-1" ino=8194 scontext=system_u:system_r:tmpreaper_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=dir tmpwatch definitely shouldn't be going to /root home, and I am pretty sure it doesn't. What's interesting though is this fact: [root@fedora ~]# ls -ldi /root 8194 dr-xr-x---. 5 root root 4096 Aug 18 15:18 /root [root@fedora ~]# ls -ldi /var/tmp 8194 drwxrwxrwt. 3 root root 4096 Aug 24 23:41 /var/tmp both directories have the same inode number, which selinux is complaining about. Since they are on different files system, it's normal: [root@fedora ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 4.0G 1.1G 2.7G 30% / devtmpfs 223M 0 223M 0% /dev tmpfs 244M 0 244M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 244M 380K 244M 1% /run /dev/mapper/vgx-root 4.0G 1.1G 2.7G 30% / tmpfs 244M 0 244M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 244M 0 244M 0% /media /dev/mapper/vgx-home 1008M 34M 923M 4% /home /dev/mapper/vgx-tmp 504M 17M 462M 4% /tmp /dev/mapper/vgx-var 1008M 303M 655M 32% /var /dev/xvda1 504M 94M 386M 20% /boot But it makes me wonder, if SELinux is confused somehow? Regards, Vadym -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iEYEARECAAYFAlA4F7kACgkQmYV3iqStpjvYYACfcSV/KBMl6lzYM7Y/iASwuQhg gnEAn3aILGJEjV/Zckc0QY8UqCRpob5V =fGNj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux