Fedora 15 Questions

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 05.04.11 20:41, Barry Fishman (barry_fishman at acm.org) wrote:

> I have been running Fedora 15 for a few weeks.  I had not used Fedora
> for a long time, and have some questions about what is going
> on.
> 
> 1) When I reboot the system the ntpd, httpd, and sshd daemons are not
> running.  I can start them easily by running the scripts in the
> /etc/init.d directory.  I understand that systemd is being used and
> these scripts are probably not generally used.  How to it get systemd to
> include these processes at startup.

systemctl enable ntpd.service httpd.service sshd.service

(though the traditional "chkconfig ntpd on ; chkconfig httpd on ;
chkconfig sshd on" will work too.

> 2) I can see using 'netstat -lt' that I have listening ports for
> these servers (once I started them) as Foreign Address *:*.  I can 
> access them locally, but I can not connect to them from my local
> network.  At first I thought it had something to do with SELinux,
> but I am running it in permissive mode.

Stop your Firewall:

systemctl stop iptables.service

(or traditional: "service iptables stop")

> 3) SELinux spits out all kinds of strange denied access messages like
> (looking in the audit.log) like login wanting to execute /bin/bash.  I
> had to put SELinux in permissive mode in order to even login.  I tried
> shutting it off, but then I could not even boot the system.  What is
> going on?  The only odd thing about my system that I can think of is
> that the timestamps have gotten out of wack due to ntpd not starting up
> and my clock drifting into way in the future.

Use the newest selinux policy package from bodhi (3.9.16-12).

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.