On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 21:28 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/09/13 21:06, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > Sorry to be responding to myself....but.... > > It seems this AVC is the relevant one since /run is on tmpfs. > > > > type=AVC msg=audit(1373375040.246:775): avc: denied { write } for pid=3820 comm="fail2ban-client" name="fail2ban" dev="tmpfs" ino=28732 scontext=system_u:system_r:fail2ban_client_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:fail2ban_var_run_t:s0 tclass=dir > > Not being fluent in selinux.... Would this be a bug in the fail2ban policy module.... Or, something else? > yes a bug in the fail2ban policy module either the fail2ban client checks to see if /run/fail2ban is writable or it actually wants to create something in there ( but there is currently no trace of the latter) -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux