On 7/28/06, Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 10:48 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Deepak Shrestha wrote: > >> 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. > >> > > > > I don't have audit directory or audit.log but issuing > > # cat /var/log/messages | grep AVC > > > > gives me blank result > > It's possible that any messages may have been rotated out. Try: > > $ fgrep type=AVC /var/log/messages* > > If there's nothing there then it's likely that your issue was not > SELinux-related. I think the type=AVC prefixes are only added if running auditd (in which case you'd be checking /var/log/audit/audit.log*). Otherwise, you'd just get the raw audit message from the kernel in /var/log/messages. The safest thing is to just look for "avc:"; that will be present regardless. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
looking for "avc:", I found lots of entries with "denied" in /var/log/messages the entry is rather long so posting only the fragment (hope this will still make the point). Its is something like this ============== Jul 24 23:39:53 webcomp kernel: audit(1153755580.824:2): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=1153 comm="mount" name="kcore" dev=proc ino=-268435435 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:proc_kcore_t:s0 tclass=file Jul 24 23:39:54 webcomp kernel: audit(1153755580.856:3): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=1153 comm="mount" name="kcore" dev=proc ino=-268435435 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:proc_kcore_t:s0 tclass=file Jul 25 11:45:16 webcomp kernel: audit(1153799116.610:8): avc: denied { use } for pid=2467 comm="bluez-pin" name="[7581]" dev=pipefs ino=7581 scontext=user_u:system_r:bluetooth_helper_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=fd Jul 25 11:45:16 webcomp kernel: audit(1153799116.610:9): avc: denied { use } for pid=2467 comm="bluez-pin" name="[7581]" dev=pipefs ino=7581 scontext=user_u:system_r:bluetooth_helper_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c255 tclass=fd Jul 25 14:00:21 webcomp kernel: audit(1153807221.327:4): avc: denied { use } for pid=2291 comm="bluez-pin" name="[7243]" dev=pipefs ino=7243 scontext=user_u:system_r:bluetooth_helper_t:s0 ...... ...... ...... ...... ..... and so on ============== What does this mean??? and most importantly why? and what is the solution? Many thanks!