Re: avc: denied { ioctl }?

[Stephen Smalley <sds tycho nsa gov>]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:17 -0500, Hongwei Li wrote:
> After I updated the policy to this version (1.17.30-2.96), from time to time
> the system log shows a lot of error messages like this:
> 
> Jun  6 17:51:04 morpheus kernel: audit(1118098264.336:0): avc:  denied  {
> ioctl } for  pid=17395 exe=/usr/bin/perl path=/proc/loadavg dev=proc
> ino=-268435456 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:proc_t tclass=file

Likely should just be dontaudit'd, e.g.
yum install selinux-policy-targeted-sources
cd /etc/selinux/targeted/src/policy
echo "dontaudit httpd_sys_script_t proc_t:file ioctl;" >> domains/misc/local.te
make load

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency