Mongodb-server fails to start with selinux enforcing

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 11/19/2014 09:16 AM, Paul Knox-Kennedy wrote:
> On a clean installation built from
> Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-21_Beta-4.iso, I installed mongodb-server
> but it failed to start due to selinux: "SELinux is preventing mongod
> from name_bind access on the tcp_socket port 27017."
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> Following the selinux instructions from the journal resolves this:
> # grep mongod /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
> # semodule -i mypol.pp
>
> Should I bugzilla this, and if so, is it against mongodb or
> selinux-policy?
Is this a standard port the mongodb should be listening on? 

The better solution would have been to label the port as a mysql_port_t.

semanage port -a -t mysql_port_t -t tcp 27017
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