nagios and SELinux

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 27 19:52:31 UTC 2006


Dan Horák wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram píše v Čt 28. 09. 2006 v 00:23 +0530:
>> Dan Horák wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have troubles with running Nagios on a CentOS 4 machine with SELinux
>>> enabled. Can be run Nagios from Extras on Fedora Core with SELinux in
>>> enforcing mode?
>>
>> Yes it does. I havent used it extensively though. So there might be 
>> policy issues.
> 
> I forgot to write that the problems are with the web interface (cgi
> scripts trying to read the logs from /var/log or even to be started).
> The monitoring part runs well.
> 
> And yes, they are policy issues with httpd. The starting of the cgi is
> quite easy to fix (set the context to httpd_sys_script_exec_t), but the
> read access for /var/log/nagios looks bad. At least for me :-)
> 

If you have these issues on the Fedora package, file those against 
selinux policy package.

Rahul




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