On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 23:16 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > I am using FC5 on a generic Athlon x64 PC. I am having problems with > several services. > > 1. Dovecot refuses to start. When I attempt to start the service I get a > message in /var/log/messages as follows: > Jun 25 23:05:38 bilbo kernel: audit(1151273138.255:415): avc: denied { > create } for pid=1480 comm="dovecot" > scontext=user_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 > tcontext=user_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 tclass=socket > > Can anyone here give me a hint on what I need to do to get this working? > >From the log message, this seems to be something to do with selinux. Indeed it is. Some more diagnostic info would be useful. Can you post the output of: # ausearch -a 415 > 2. On Samba, I experience a different, but possibly related problem. > Samba starts, but I see the following message in the log every few minutes: > > Jun 25 23:09:25 bilbo smbd[1502]: Denied connection from (192.168.0.5) > Jun 25 23:11:50 bilbo smbd[1513]: [2006/06/25 23:11:50, 0] > lib/access.c:check_access(328) > > The other PC referred to in the log message is unable to even see the > linux share. > > Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Do you have a "hosts allow" line in /etc/samba/smb.conf ? Paul.