hobbit on RH 5.3 server

["McGraw, Robert P" <rmcgraw (at) purdue.edu>]

On the RH 5.3 hosts I have installed just the client side of
hobbit.4.2.0.

After a reboot I get the following in the /var/log/messages file:

Jul  7 15:41:37 galileo kernel: type=1400 audit(1246995697.604:109):
avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=8951 comm="ifconfig"
path="/local/hobbit/client/tmp/msg.galileo.math.purdue.edu.txt.8937"
dev=dm-3 ino=294968 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=file
Jul  7 15:41:37 galileo kernel: type=1400 audit(1246995697.604:110):
avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=8951 comm="ifconfig"
path="/local/hobbit/client/logs/hobbitclient.log" dev=dm-3 ino=294969
scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0
tcontext=user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=file
Jul  7 15:41:37 galileo kernel: type=1400 audit(1246995697.624:111):
avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=8955 comm="ifconfig"
path="/local/hobbit/client/tmp/msg.galileo.math.purdue.edu.txt.8937"
dev=dm-3 ino=294968 scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=file
Jul  7 15:41:37 galileo kernel: type=1400 audit(1246995697.624:112):
avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=8955 comm="ifconfig"
path="/local/hobbit/client/logs/hobbitclient.log" dev=dm-3 ino=294969
scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0
tcontext=user_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=file


Right after a boot I get the following:
 
[14][root (at) galileo]:hobbit/client/logs# ls -alZ
drwxr-xr-x  bb bb   user_u:object_r:default_t:s0     ./
drwxr-xr-x  bb bb   user_u:object_r:default_t:s0     ../
-rw-r--r--  bb bb   system_u:object_r:default_t:s0
clientlaunch.galileo.math.purdue.edu.pid
-rw-r--r--  bb bb   user_u:object_r:default_t:s0     clientlaunch.log
-rw-r--r--  bb bb   user_u:object_r:default_t:s0     hobbitclient.log


If I then manually run the init.d/hobbit start script then it shows:

35][root (at) galileo]:hobbit/client/logs# ls -alZ
drwxr-xr-x  bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0     ./
drwxr-xr-x  bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0     ../
-rw-r--r--  bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0
clientlaunch.galileo.math.purdue.edu.pid
-rw-r--r--  bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0     clientlaunch.log
-rw-r--r--  bb bb user_u:object_r:default_t:s0     hobbitclient.log

and I do not get the error messages in /var/log. 

I know that this is being caused by SELinux, but not sure the best way
to resolve this problem?

Thanks

Robert






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Robert P. McGraw, Jr.
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