[DSE-Dev] refpolicy HEAD, patch for Debian logs of syslog rotation

Christopher J. PeBenito cpebenito at tresys.com
Wed Dec 12 16:11:13 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 15:52 +0100, Václav Ovsík wrote:
> there is another change for the refpolicy, so the Debian system can run
> /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd successfully. This is rotation for logs parsed
> from syslog.conf config file. Script /usr/sbin/syslogd-listfiles lists
> logs, that needs rotation. Logs are rotated using script
> /usr/bin/savelog then.
> 
> Without attached patch domain logrotate_t is not allowed to read
> syslog_conf_t and following denials are generated:
> 
> audit(1197384508.149:3): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=1589 comm="syslogd-listfil" name="syslog.conf" dev=sda1 ino=213265 scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:syslog_conf_t:s0 tclass=file
> audit(1197384508.149:4): avc:  denied  { ioctl } for  pid=1589 comm="syslogd-listfil" name="syslog.conf" dev=sda1 ino=213265 scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:syslog_conf_t:s0 tclass=file
> audit(1197384508.149:5): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=1589 comm="syslogd-listfil" name="syslog.conf" dev=sda1 ino=213265 scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:syslog_conf_t:s0 tclass=file

Merged.  I renamed the interface and moved the te file change lower to
the preexisting distro_debian block.

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