On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 11:39, Dan Trainor wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > Date sent: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 02:49:15 -0700
> > From: Dan Trainor <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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
Thats a SELinux error message ... by the look of it, whatever policy you are
running is preventing ntpd from removing its sock file when it shuts down.
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