FC5 services that will not start

[Paul Howarth]

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

> 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 ?

Paul.