wicd - better wireless network manager than NetworkManager?

[max bianco]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net> wrote:

> I installed the wicd rpm on a Fedora 8 laptop and tried to start the
> daemon. Unfortunately, I immediately get an alert from SELINUX that the
> daemon is trying to access some files in /tmp and it won't let the
> daemon do this. The command to run suggested by SELINUX does not work so
> I cannot try wicd. I had a problem with SELINUX also with wireless
> assistant which prevented it from running.
>
> I get two different messages from SELINUX:
>
> SELinux is preventing the wpa_supplicant from using potentially
> mislabeled files (./tmp).
>
> SELinux is preventing ethtool (ifconfig_t) "write"
> to /opt/wicd/data/wicd.log (usr_t).
>
> I can send more details if desired.
>
> Rick B.
>

Best bet is probably to bounce it off the fedora-selinux list. They will be
able to straighten you out.

Max
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