I have recently been told I will have to maintain some CentOS servers at work. Since I have only been using Slackware for the last 16 years, I decided to install CentOS on one of my servers at home to get an idea of the differences. I installed CentOS 5.4 from CD with no problems, did a yum update, set up a couple of samba shares and started to copy over some files from one of my other servers.
Everything looks ok, but I keep seeing this message on the active console. I have no idea where it comes from nor what it means.
type=1400 audit(1260446462.444:9): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=2200 comm="smbd" path="/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc" dev=binfmt_misc ino=4348 scontext=root:system_r:smbd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:binfmt_misc_fs_t:s0 tclass=dir
What is it, what is triggering it and how do I fix it?
selinux.
For your machine at home, you may want to just turn it off; if you really want to see what might be going on at work, set it to permissive, which will let it all happen, but gripe.
setenforce 0 turns it off. Edit /etc/selinux/config to fix it over reboots.
Also look at /var/log/audit/audit.log. It will get the error, and tell you to run sealert to see what the error's complaining about.
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