On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:07 -0400, Karl MacMillan wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:53 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 13:47 -0500, Hongwei Li wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a fc6 linux box: kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6, selinux-policy-2.4.6-62.fc6
> > and selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-62.fc6, audit-1.4.2-5.fc6.
> > The system works and I was trying to add some settings to the selinux policy
> > by running audit2allow. It was okay before noon:
> >
> > # audit2allow -M local < /var/log/audit/audit.log
> > # semodule -i local.pp
> >
> > The new modules were added and it works. However, later, I can't do it
again,
> > but always get error:
> >
> > # audit2allow -M local < /var/log/audit/audit.log
> > compilation failed:
> > (unknown source)::ERROR 'syntax error' at token '' on line 6:
> >
> > /usr/bin/checkmodule: error(s) encountered while parsing configuration
> > /usr/bin/checkmodule: loading policy configuration from local.te
> >
> > and the file local.te has only one line:
> >
> > module local 1.0;
> >
> > not like before. Can somebody tell what is wrong? "on line 6" of
what file?
> > I reboot the system, still the same.
>
> What version of policycoreutils?
>
> The implication is that there were no avc denials
> in /var/log/audit/audit.log, and thus the generated module was empty.
How did the old audit2allow handle this? Presumably a message saying
that there are no messages would be preferable.
./audit2allow -M local < /dev/null
Generating type enforcment file: local.te
./audit2allow: No AVC messages found.
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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency