-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote: > In RHEL/CentOS 5.1 a cron job (/etc/cron.daily/prelink) runs prelink. > The cron job itself removes a file (/etc/prelink.cache) if necessary and > updates the database. This does not work with the strict SELinux policy. > > To solve this I patched the prelink application to > use /var/cache/prelink/prelink.cache instead of /etc/prelink.cache > This would make it more easier to write SELinux policies. But know my > actual question is how to modify the cron job to work properly? All cron > jobs on my system are labeled as bin_t. This would mean that > system_crond_t needs write/create etc. permissions > on /var/cache/prelink. Thats not really nice and I would prefer to > create a domain like cron_script_prelink_t for /etc/cron.daily/prelink > which gets all the rights to manage /var/cache/prelink. > > What are your ideas to handle cron scripts properly? > > > -- > This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. > If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message. Does labeling the directory cron_var_run_t make it work? Please open a bug report on prelink to put the cache file in this new directory. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfVMNwACgkQrlYvE4MpobM2fACcCsoJisgY2LL9x19bwqiN7W6F IQUAoIRGXttjVPA5mkVIenfP2DEGpvGi =ybll -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
