Fail2ban and SELinux

[Daniel J Walsh]

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max bianco wrote:
> I recently installed fail2ban on my F8 box. I don't allow remote
> access to my box but it had been mentioned recently so I decided to
> test it out. I installed it a few days ago but didn't do anything with
> it till last night. I had forgotten about it but I was perusing log
> files and saw 21 AVC's related it to it. I pulled up my services gui
> and sure enough it wasn't running. I tried to start it and got
> denied(it wouldn't start from a terminal at all, complaining that the
> service is unrecognized). No problem , i expected as much when I saw
> the AVC's in my log files but I always try things more than once so I
> tried to start it a second time and this time and every time after it
> started without generating a denial. Is this because I manually
> started the service? That doesn't make sense because then it would
> have worked the first time as well but it didn't. I see that there is
> a policy module for fail2ban but if the module is in place then
> shouldn't it have run without issues? Why 21 AVC's and then its
> working? I am learning my way around SELinux but I don't feel
> comfortable enough to troubleshoot this problem correctly, so where do
> I start?
> 
> Max
> 
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Was there a policy upgrade during this time?  Problem might have been fixed.


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