FC5 services that will not start

[Paul Howarth]

Chris Jones wrote:
> 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?

It's in the "audit" package.

>>> 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.

Try this:
hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.

Paul.