[CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4
Whit Blauvelt
whit at transpect.com
Tue May 25 23:55:12 UTC 2010
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:33:53PM -0700, Jerry Franz wrote:
> Are you running with SELinux on?
Now there's a good question, it turns out. I'd assumed CentOS followed the
pattern of most distros in having it not be in strictest mode
out-of-the-box, but in /etc/selinux/config:
SELINUX=enforcing
I can see where to turn it off in /etc/selinux/config. But what's the step
to get it to restart, other than rebooting the system? Reload a module?
And I'd point out that _nothing_ about smbd was being logged previously,
until upgrading samba from the CentOS 5.4 version to the current version
started throwing this error:
May 25 19:22:26 xyz smbd[5455]: [2010/05/25 19:22:26, 0] lib/messages.c:message_init(132)
May 25 19:22:26 xyz smbd[5455]: ERROR: Failed to initialise messages database
Isn't selinux supposed to be competent enough to log events that it
presents? There's nothing from it in anything under /var/log. So if selinux
is causing this whole problem, it's pretty incompetent at it. Anything worth
blocking is certainly worth logging, right?
Whit
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