Re: awstats munged httpd rights in SElinux, how to fix?

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On Monday 04 August 2008, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Wanting to see who might have visited my simple web page, I installed
>> awstats from the fedora repo today.
>>
>> The awstats selinux helper seems to be an empty file, yumex win't dl it or
>> install it even when checked.
>>
>>>From the yumex screen:
>> 7:59:02 : Package Queue:
>> 17:59:02 :  Packages to install
>> 17:59:02 :  ---> awstats-selinux-6.7-1.fc8.noarch
>> 17:59:02 : Preparing for install/remove/update
>> 17:59:02 : --> Preparing for install
>> 17:59:02 : Package awstats-selinux is obsoleted by awstats, trying to
>> install awstats-6.8-1.fc8.noarch instead
>> 17:59:02 : Package awstats-6.8-1.fc8.noarch already installed and latest
>> version
>> 17:59:06 : Error in Dependency Resolution
>> 17:59:06 : Success - empty transaction
>>
>> which is self-explanatory.
>>
>> But on attempting to look at my page at localhost, I get connection
>> refused.
>>
>> So I as root, do:service httpd restart
>> Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]
>> Starting httpd: (13)Permission denied: httpd: could not open error log
>> file /etc/httpd/logs/error_log.
>> Unable to open logs
>>                                                            [FAILED]
>>
>> And an selinux denial that says I can fix it with this:
>> #> setsebool -P httpd_unified=1
>>
>> But I've now executed that line several times without success.
>>
>> I've also gone through the httpd stuff and made much of it 0644 and owned
>> by apache:apache.
>>
>> Obviously I'm suffering from the local heat and missing the flashing red
>> light here, so what is next folks?  It was all working AFAIK before I
>> installed awstats, when running kernel 2.6.26 just yesterday, but now
>> booted to 2.6.27-rc1.  Dunno which is the culprit.  Help!
>
>Did you check the labeling on the log files?
>
>Are you getting any AVC messages.

Not now, it was a bug in 2.6.27-rc1 that I've patched & all is now well.

Thanks.

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