[CentOS] Odd failure of smbd to start from init.d - CentOS 5.4 - it's that fine SELinux

Thu May 27 15:51:43 UTC 2010
Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com>

On 05/27/2010 05:55 AM, Jerry Franz wrote:
>
> I have *twenty* virtual machines I deploy updates to before it ever
> touches my production systems. Not everything is testable on
> non-production machines.
...
> Now back to fixing the SELinux configuration on a machine I had to put
> in 'permissive' mode a few weeks ago because the last round of SELinux
> updates broke the web server's ability to open its own log files.

That sounds like the sort of thing that you'd have noticed if you'd 
applied the update and started the service on a test host before production.