[syslog-ng] Subsys Dead, syslog-ng and SELinux

[Anand Shankar]

I recently installed syslog-ng successfully on a FC3-SELinux enabled
 box. Everything is fine except that:
 
 # service syslog-ng status
 
 syslog-ng dead but subsys locked
 
 # ls --context /var/lock/subsys/syslog-ng
 
 -rw------- root root root:object_r:var_lock_t syslog-ng
 
 The root:object_r:var_lock_t should have been
 user_u:object_r:var_lock_t, and that is what is causing syslog-ng
 daemon to die. Also, the file permissions generally are 666.
 
 One easy way is to switch off SELinux for syslog-ng, but is there a
 better way?? Why are the permissions wrong??
 
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 Anand Shankar