[Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.

[EDSchminke at Hormel.com]

*****PLEASE***** do NOT leave SELinux in permissive mode.  (
http://stopdisablingselinux.com/)

I have beat SELinux into submission to make Xymon work the way I need it
to.  You can do the same by following my procedure below, or from watching
Thomas Cameron's lecture from RedHat Summit a couple years ago "SELinux For
Mere Mortals" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNoVgDqqJmM)  I built mine
from the tips given in this video.

As root:
#> setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs on
#> setsebool -P httpd_read_user_content on

A few things can't be done for Xymon by simply changing SELinux booleans.
I've curated a number of SELinux policy exceptions over the past couple
years in order to make Xymon and SELinux play nice together.  You can
create yours by doing this:

## vvvvvv ---- copy everything below this line ---- vvvvvv ##
module xymon 1.0;

require {
	type unconfined_t;
	type var_log_t;
	type initrc_t;
	type admin_home_t;
	type httpd_t;
	type user_home_t;
	type fonts_cache_t;
	type port_t;
	class tcp_socket name_connect;
	class file { rename execute setattr read create execute_no_trans
write getattr unlink open };
	class sock_file write;
	class lnk_file { create unlink };
	class unix_dgram_socket sendto;
	class dir { write rmdir setattr remove_name create add_name };
}

#============= httpd_t ==============
allow httpd_t admin_home_t:file { read getattr open };
allow httpd_t fonts_cache_t:dir setattr;
allow httpd_t initrc_t:unix_dgram_socket sendto;
allow httpd_t port_t:tcp_socket name_connect;
allow httpd_t unconfined_t:unix_dgram_socket sendto;
allow httpd_t user_home_t:dir rmdir;
allow httpd_t user_home_t:dir { write remove_name create add_name };
allow httpd_t user_home_t:file setattr;
allow httpd_t user_home_t:file { rename write execute create unlink
execute_no_trans };
allow httpd_t user_home_t:lnk_file { create unlink };
allow httpd_t user_home_t:sock_file write;
allow httpd_t var_log_t:file read;
EOF
## ^^^^^ ---- to everything above this line ---- ^^^^^^ ##

Paste what you've copied into a file-- doesn't matter where; I've used the
name "xymon.te"
#> vi xymon.te

Run the following commands to build the SELinux policy module:
#> checkmodule -M -m -o xymon.mod xymon.te
#> semodule_package -m xymon.mod -o xymon.pp

Run this command to install the policy module.
#> semodule -i xymon.pp

Change your /etc/sysconfig/selinux back to "enforcing".
Reboot.

If you see any funkiness, watch /var/log/audit/audit.log for AVC denials.

#> grep type=AVC /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep denied

If you see anything in there, it means it's time to "build a policy
exception" not "disable SELinux".


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Everyone was right on followings:
    added this line at the bottom of file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
        include /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf

and Paul Root was right about Selinux, so I did:

    modified file /etc/sysconfig/selinux
        #SELINUX=enforcing      KERN testing ....
        SELINUX=permissive
    rebooted.

it works now!!!
Thank you!!!I can go home and feel good, will do more learning tomorrow :)
    Let's go GreenThis email contains 100% recycled electrons.



Erik D. Schminke | Associate Systems Programmer
Hormel Foods Corporation | One Hormel Place | Austin, MN 55912
Phone: (507) 434-6817
edschminke at hormel.com | www.hormelfoods.com