cron fails to load after upgrade to FC2

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Tue May 11 18:45:57 UTC 2004


Phil Anderson wrote:

> I just updated one of my FC1 boxes to FC2T3 (and updated), and cron is
> having serious problems!  It starts up, but fails to load the crontab,
> or anything in the cron.d directory.
> 
> May 11 23:17:35 harry crond[6682]: (system_u) getfilecon FAILED
> (/etc/crontab)
> May 11 23:17:35 harry crond[6682]: (system_u) getfilecon FAILED
> (/etc/cron.d/clamav-update)
> 
> Possibly a SELinux problem?  I'm just using the default SELinux settings
> (disabled?).  No selinux kernel boot parameters, and the file
> /etc/sysconfig/selinux doesn't exist.
> 
> Any ideas?  Or is this one for bugzilla?
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil
> 
> 

Looks like a bug to me (possibly in init not handling the non-existence 
of /etc/sysconfig/selinux correctly).

A workaround may be to create the  /etc/sysconfig/selinux file with the 
contents "SELINUX=disabled" (no quotes).

HTH
Richard Hally





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