Looking for directory paths...

[Arthur Dent]

Hello all,

When I get a SEL alert it refers only to to the actual directory and not
the full pathname. For example:

SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/smbd from create access on the directory 05.

The advice for fixing this alert is probably useful but without knowing
the full path is actually completely useless:

If you want to allow smbd to have create access on the 05 directory
Then you need to change the label on '05'
Do
# semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t '05'
# restorecon  -v '05'

The problem is - I don't know where directory "05" is. It's probably
some temporary cache file or some such and trying to even find its
parent directory with a name like "05" makes using 'locate' or 'find'
really quite hard work.

In this case the alert(s) (there were several - each with a different
numerical directory name) were actually caused when I tried to sync my
iPhone using iTunes installed on a Windows XP virtual machine running
under VirtualBox on this Fedora 16 host, accessing the music library via
a Samba share on a separate partition on the Fedora 16 box.... Yeah... I
know....

But anyway - if I could find the full path of the directory in question
I *might* be able to take a closer look at where the problem lies...

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

Mark

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