Fedora Extras Firestarter RPM

[Colin J Thomson]

On Friday 01 Jul 2005 19:33, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> >>This may be the wrong list for this question, but has anyone used the
> >>firestarter RPM with Selinux?  I seem to get a lot of errors relating to
> >>selinux on network startup/shutdown when firestarter is installed.  I am
> >>using 2.6.12.1 kernel.

> I tracked the problem with firestarter down to /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks
> which contains the line "sh /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh start" which
> starts firestarter independed of the firestater init script.  Removing
> this line solves the selinux errors and the firewall policy still seems
> to be in effect.  I am theroizing that the line above is executed when
> the dhclient daemon attempts to shutdown  as well as start thus
> attempting to start the firewall while closing the interface.  I think
> this is what selinux is flagging.  I haven't checked to see if there is
> a reason for that command yet.

Yep, I can confirm this clears up all the Selinux/Kernel boot errors related 
to FS and all seems to be running "ok" so far.

Thanks for finding this,

Colin
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