I just installed syslog-ng 1.6.9 on a centos 4.2 machine and syslog-ng doesnt start even after setting setsebool -P use_syslogng=1 I still get the error Starting system logger: Error opening file /proc/kmsg for reading (Permission denied) However it seems that syslog-ng tries to write to /prc/kmsg instead of reading it type=AVC msg=audit(1135510199.139:26): avc: denied { write } for pid=11942 comm="syslog-ng" name="kmsg" dev=proc ino=-268435446 scontext=root:system_r:syslogd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:proc_kmsg_t tclass=file I'm a little bit puzzled why syslog-ng tries to write to /proc/kmsg instead of just reading messages of it. I can off course change the policy to allow writing but I feel that I must be doing something wrong here Thanks Ronny