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

[José Pedro Oliveira]

Anand,

Which SELinux policy are you using: targeted or strict?

If you are using the targeted policy, check this message:
https://lists.balabit.hu/pipermail/syslog-ng/2005-April/007347.html

jpo

Anand Shankar wrote:
> 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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