FC5 services that will not start
Chris Jones
linux at stow-jones.co.uk
Mon Jun 26 10:15:58 UTC 2006
Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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
>
produces the output >
[root at bilbo network-scripts]# ausearch -a 415
-bash: ausearch: command not found
Clearly, I am missing this application. Where should it be? Which RPM?
>
>> 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 ?
>
Yes. it reads > hosts allow = 192.168.0 127.
which has always worked in the past.
> Paul.
>
>
>
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