[CentOS-devel] Re: [packagers] Nagios + selinux
Dag Wieers
dag at wieers.com
Fri Mar 2 10:11:37 UTC 2007
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Christoph Maser wrote:
> it seems the rpmforge nagios package does not work out of the box if
> selinux is turned on. A log from someone complaining about it (the
> nagios cgis) not working:
>
> ---
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled
> (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] Digest: done
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads.
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:38 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: exec of '/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/status.cgi' failed, referer: http://127.0.0.1/nagios/side.html
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:38 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: status.cgi, referer: http://127.0.0.1/nagios/side.html
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:39 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: exec of '/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/tac.cgi' failed, referer: http://127.0.0.1/nagios/side.html
> ---
>
> I would like to make proper rules for this rpm but i have absolutely no
> clue about selinux and policies. Any hints what to read, where to start?
Yes, selinux is pretty complicated and I have no good experience of it
myself. I always but it to permissive. I would love to add selinux
capabilities to my packages, though I don't know how I can help you with
it.
Please let me know if you have learned more and tell me what specific
changes are required.
Thanks in advance !
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