Shutdown error with ntpd

Dan Trainor info at hostinthebox.net
Sun Jan 23 11:39:28 UTC 2005


Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> Had to shut the machine down three times to be able to catch the 
> whole error message, since it will not pause.
> 
> Shutting down ntpd: audit(1106478493.061:0): avc: denied {write} 
> for pid=2935 exe=/usr/sbin/ntpd name=log dev=tmpfs ino=5739 
> scontext=user_u:system_r:ntpd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r: 
> device_t tclass=sock_file
> 
> The audit number and pid number change, not sure about the other 
> number.
> 
> 
> On 23 Jan 2005 at 2:49, Dan Trainor wrote:
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>>Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
>>
>>>I've noticed after a recent update that during the system shutdown 
>>>the ntpd process shows an error message with an access denied 
>>>message. I've noticed it on a number of machines with FC3. 
>>
>> >
>> > cool set info here blah blah ;)
>> >
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>>Any chance that we can see this error in it's entirety?
>>
>>Thanks
>>-dant
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Not being familiar with ntpd much... does it have a configuration 
directive where you can specify a log file?  If so, does the user that 
ntpd runs as have access to write a file there?  I'm just going on a 
hunch here, I have no clue really.

Thanks
-dant




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