Re: service not starting via systemd but no AVCs are generated

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On 09/07/13 13:29, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On F19 the service fail2ban won't start via systemd with selinux in enforcing mode.
> 
> The error in the message log indicates....
> 
> fail2ban-client[2804]: ERROR Directory /var/run/fail2ban exists but not accessible for writing
> 
> But, if you execute the command in the service file from the command line....
> 
> [root@f18x log]# /usr/bin/fail2ban-client -x start
> 2013-07-09 18:46:10,558 fail2ban.server : INFO   Starting Fail2ban v0.8.10
> 2013-07-09 18:46:10,559 fail2ban.server : INFO   Starting in daemon mode
> 
> It starts and you can see the files created in /var/run/fail2ban
> 
> [root@f18x fail2ban]# pwd
> /var/run/fail2ban
> [root@f18x fail2ban]# ls
> fail2ban.pid  fail2ban.sock
> 
> 
> And if you put selinux in permissive mode....
> 
> [root@f18x fail2ban]# pwd
> /var/run/fail2ban
> [root@f18x fail2ban]# ls
> [root@f18x fail2ban]# setenforce 0
> [root@f18x fail2ban]# systemctl start fail2ban
> [root@f18x fail2ban]# ls
> fail2ban.pid  fail2ban.sock
> 
> So it is running with selinux placed in permissive mode.....
> 
> But, no AVC are ever thrown to the audit log.
> 
> How to figure out what is the culprit?
> 
> 
> 
Firstly, as I do not have a F19 handy at the moment, did you try
restorecon ? Secondly you might have to disable don't audit using
semodule -DB to get audit messages.
Then you should see some denials, if fail2ban has a don't audit option
in the policy.

Regards,
Tristan

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