Re: [syslog-ng] having an issue with syslog and SElinux

Frank Scalzo <fscalzo@gmail.com> writes:

kernel: : type=1400 audit(1355841452.964:21866): avc: denied { fowner } for pid=861 comm="syslog-ng" capability=3 scontext=system_u:system_r:syslogd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:syslogd_t:s0 tclass=capability

How do i fix this without disabling SElinux

While I'm not a SELinux expert, and I can't say for sure that I understand the error message, but perhaps running syslog-ng with --disable-caps would help. -- |8]