Re: avc: denied { ioctl }?

["Hongwei Li" <hongwei wustl edu>]

> 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

Thanks for the help.  The strnage thing is that after June 6, 18:00, this
message avc:  denied  { ioctl }... suddenly does not show up any more (up to
now, June 8, 9am).  If it shows up again, I will do the above.  Now, I am just
curious what happened.  I did not change the policy in these two days, did not
change any system setting either.  What does the error message mean?  What is
loadavg?

Thanks!

Hongwei Li