smb can't access its own logfiles?

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 19:04 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> I got this erros:
> audit(1154259027.504:4): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=2610 
> comm="smbd" name="cores" scontext=system_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:samba_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
> audit(1154259027.996:5): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=2613 
> comm="nmbd" name="cores" scontext=system_u:system_r:nmbd_t:s0 
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:samba_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
> on a FC5 system running
> selinux-policy-targeted-2.3.2-1.fc5 and samba-3.0.23a-1.fc5.1
> is this a known bug/regression or should I fill a bug report?

I saw this too.

Samba wants to create the directories:

/var/log/samba/cores/smbd
/var/log/samba/cores/nmbd

and set their modes to 0700. It dumps core into these directories if it
detects an internal error, as described here:

http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/bugreport.html

Paul.