Hi all,
I am running a daemon process (C++ program) on RHEL 6.6 with SELinux
enabled. This process eventually executes "rsync" to do file-copy
operation. It is failing with following error:
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rsync: change_dir "/home/foobar/source/" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: ERROR: cannot stat destination "/mnt/other_volume/testData":
Permission denied (13).
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Question: Why is rsync failing with this error? I checked permissions of
"source" and "target" and both have permissions for the user.
Other testing data:
1) I tested this with "SELinux" disabled and rsync succeeds.
2) I tested this with "SELinux" enabled and launching process from
terminal. In this case "rsync" works fine. So, it looks like it is
something to do with "SELinux permissions" to process which do not have tty?
3) On other system RHEL 6.8, SELinux enabled, process as daemon: rsync
works fine. I compared SELinux configuration of both these systems, but
couldn't find anything to reason it out. If you need, I can attach SELinux
configurations.
Thanks in advance,
Sachin