On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 11:13 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > On 7/28/06, Ed Kim <ed.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Patrick Doyle wrote: > > > I thought about that after I sent my email... Gee, probably won't help > > > you at all, but the button had been pressed and the email sent... > > > > > > Anyway, > > > Once before I have seen a file that root couldn't delete. It was on a > > > badly hosed disk that had suffered a fatal data destroying fsck. I > > > was about to contact the maintainers of ext3 and say to them "Do you > > > want to see a disk image on which root cannot delete a file?", when I > > > thought to check the extended attributes (via "lsattr") -- sure > > > enough, the file system had been corrupted enough that some attribute > > > had been set that inhibited even root from removing the file (perhaps > > > it was flagged as "immutable" -- I don't recall now). > > > > > > The other thought that comes to mind is SELinux, about which I know > > > absolutely nothing. > > > > > > --wpd > > > > > Are there any relevant messages in /var/log/messages ? > > if it is selinux, you can try the command 'setenforce 0' to temporarily > > disable it and rerun the rpm command. > > > > -- > > Ed Kim, RHCE > > http://www.rhatbox.com > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > I tried to look in /var/log/messages but could not find something > related permission, more of the selinux messages were in "activated > ... device hda... autofs etc. > > I tried "setenforce 0" and run the rpm, it works. I had put back to > "setenforce 1". Now I need to know which selinux setting I need to > tweak so that this wont happen again. Look in /var/log/messages, or if you're running the audit daemon (default on in FC4), /var/log/audit/audit.log, for lines containing "type=AVC". Paul.
