On Wednesday 29 Jun 2005 20:16, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > Colin J Thomson wrote: > >I am trying to get APM to work on this new FC4 box but am having a slight > >problem, in that issuing the command "apm -S" shows this: > > > >Cannot open APM device: Permission denied > > > >However if I set "setenforce 0" and try again the Box goes into standby > > fine, Selinux is all new to me (assuming this is the problem) so any tips > > would be most welcome, a quick search on Google and the Selinux Docs has > > shed no light on this. > What avc messages are you seeing in your /var/log/messages or > /var/log/audit/audit.log type=KERNEL msg=audit(1120074088.873:2041891): syscall=5 arch=40000003 success=no exit=-13 a0=8049f28 a1=1 a2=226ff4 a3=0 items=1 pid=3931 loginuid=-1 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 comm=apm exe=/usr/bin/apm type=KERNEL msg=audit(1120074088.873:2041891): item=0 name="/dev/apm_bios" inode=749 dev=00:0d mode=020600 uid=500 gid=0 rdev=0a:86 type=KERNEL msg=audit(1120074088.875:2041901): avc: denied { dac_override } for capability=1 scontext=root:system_r:apm_t tcontext=root:system_r:apm_t tclass=capability type=KERNEL msg=audit(1120074088.875:2041901): syscall=5 arch=40000003 success=no exit=-13 a0=8049f28 a1=1 a2=36312e31 a3=0 items=1 pid=3931 loginuid=-1 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 comm=apm exe=/usr/bin/apm type=KERNEL msg=audit(1120074088.875:2041901): item=0 name="/dev/apm_bios" inode=749 dev=00:0d mode=020600 uid=500 gid=0 rdev=0a:86 As a note I also tested with the Selinux packages from "updates-testing" last night with the same results. HTH Colin -- Fedora Core 4, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.12-ck2 KDE-Redhat-3.4.1-1.0.2.fc4.kde Registered Linux user number #342953