On Sep 23, 2016, at 10:36 AM, cpolish at surewest.net wrote: > > What do these commands show? > > ls -lF /var/log/mysqld.log > ls -lZ /var/log/mysqld.log > getenforce Simply saying 'sudo restorecon -R /var/log’ may fix it by resetting SELinux file permissions to their intended defaults. That won’t help if you have explicit SELinux labels applied to that one log file, though. The ls -lZ output (from after the restorecon command) would be necessary to understand the complaint from mysqld_safe in that case.