avc: denied { write } for pid=5267 comm="dhcpd" name="dhcpd.pid"

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 15 02:10:16 UTC 2008


Dear fellow selinux experts,

I am trying to make one of my machines a dhcp server to connect other machines to the internet, see thread in Fedora list if applicable, I have achieved a breakthrough, but selinux denies it :(  

[root at localhost ~]# dhcpd -f
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server 4.0.0
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Warning: subnet 10.154.19.0/27 overlaps subnet 10.154.19.0/24
Not searching LDAP since ldap-server, ldap-port and ldap-base-dn were not specified in the config file
Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0e:a6:42:59:af/10.154.19.0/24
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:0e:a6:42:59:af/10.154.19.0/24
Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
^C
[root at localhost ~]# service dhcpd stop
[root at localhost ~]# service dhcpd start
Starting dhcpd:                                            [  OK  ]


 but now selinux gets in the way :(

Nov 14 20:03:40 localhost kernel: type=1400 audit(1226714620.135:183): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=5267 comm="dhcpd" name="dhcpd.pid" dev=dm-0 ino=3244731 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:dhcpd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:var_run_t:s0 tclass=file
Nov 14 20:03:40 localhost kernel: type=1400 audit(1226714620.135:184): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=5267 comm="dhcpd" name="dhcpd.pid" dev=dm-0 ino=3244731scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:dhcpd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:var_run_t:s0 tclass=file
Nov 14 20:03:40 localhost dhcpd: Can't create PID file /var/run/dhcpd.pid: Permission denied.

How can I allow it to work?  

Setroubleshoot has not kicked in to warn me so I do not know a fix as of this moment :(  

Regards,

Antonio 


      




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