gnu linux update question

[James McKenzie]

On 6/28/11 6:37 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 06/28/2011 08:17 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>>    Does this work as regular user for you? For me -  selinux makes it crash.
>> run ausearch -m avc -ts recent
>>
>> And see if it generates any output.
>>
>> SELinux error messages are written to /var/log/audit/audit.log
>>
>>
>>
>    Thanks Dan - Nope no selinux logs on this one best I can tell. If I
> run as user I get:
>
>   $ needs-restarting
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/needs-restarting", line 137, in<module>
>      sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
>    File "/usr/bin/needs-restarting", line 117, in main
>      for fn in get_open_files(pid):
>    File "/usr/bin/needs-restarting", line 84, in get_open_files
>      for line in maps.readlines():
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied
>
>
>    Its odd - line 117 in needs-restarting is this fragment:
>
>
>      for pid in return_running_pids(uid=myuid):
>          try:
>              pid_start = os.stat('/proc/' + pid)[stat.ST_CTIME]
>          except OSError, e:
>              continue
>          found_match = False
>          for fn in get_open_files(pid):
>
> Works fine as root.
Usually ordinary users are prohibited from accessing /proc/<whatever> 
from what I remember.  That is why root works and joe-blow does not.

James McKenzie