selinux is a pain

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Sep 21 13:24:20 UTC 2011


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On 09/20/2011 07:37 PM, Martín Marqués wrote:
> 2011/9/20 David Quigley <selinux at davequigley.com>:
>> On 09/20/2011 16:17, Martín Marqués wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yes, I get selinux alerts. I stated them in an earlier mail.
>>> 
>>> From the alerts, the only one that gave me trouble was
>>> mod_python, and basically trac.
>>> 
>>> Also, apache couldn't conect to the PostgreSQL server, but that
>>> I solved easilly.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> You mentioned earlier in the thread that you changed the location
>> of some things. Could you mention the customizations you've done
>> so Dan or I can help you with updating your file contexts
>> properly? Also posting your AVC denials to the fedora SELinux
>> list would help us figure out if its your setup or if its the
>> policy itself that is wrong. I guess you could post them here as
>> well if people are interested.
> 
> As I sad. Trac repos are at /var/lib/trac/ and append permission
> is needed for the trac logs.
> 
> Also saw some python execution problems from mod_python (apache).
> 
> Just now I found this:
> 
> SELinux is preventing /usr/libexec/postfix/bounce from search
> access on the directorio /var/spool/postfix/defer.
> 
> I've seen these before
> 


The postfix bounce issue is a known problem on RHEL6.  You can get a
fix for this by downloading a preview of the 6.2 policy in yum
repository under


http://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/RHEL6

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