Installing HP 4255 Printer

[Paul Howarth]

Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 14:21 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
>>I opened the Security Level GUI, and I see the option for
>>disabling individual services. However, I cannot check any of them.
>>The V mark does not appear when I click on them.
> 
> 
> I think that's how it behaves when SELinux is disabled, overall.
> 
> 
>>In addition, I do prefer to edit config files manually, to learn. 
> 
> 
> I would, too.  Though I've also found SELinux documentation to be less
> than adequate to attempt configuring something manually.  
> 
> Likewise for SELinux-related things.  For instance, the audit.log is
> just gibberish, to me.  I can't look at it and see that something
> happened at a particular time (like the messages log file), and the
> content of some entries gives no clue as to what it means.
> 
> For example:
> 
> type=SOCKETCALL msg=audit(1123685491.877:78): nargs=6 a0=4 a1=bf8ce47c a2=10 a3=0 a4=bf8d0618 a5=c
> type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1123685491.878:83): audit_backlog_limit=256 old=64 by auid=4294967295
> 
> I can't even guess at what they might refer to.

You might try:

# ausearch -a 78

(the number is the number following the colon in the audit(xxx:yyy) part 
of the entry)

That should result in something a little more comprehansible. Note that 
the audit subsystem is not only used by SELinux - most entries will not 
be SELinux-related at all.

Paul.