[clue-tech] syslog FIFO and Permission Denied

[William]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:

>While it's impossible to say for sure without seeing the messages
>(have you looked in /var/log/messages?), I suspect what you are seeing
>is selinux in action. It's denying syslog to write to a file thats
>probibly got the wrong security context to allow syslog to use it. 
>
>Several possible options: 
>
>- - Disable selinux in /etc/sysconfig/selinux. Of course then you don't
>get it's protectons as well. 
>
>- - Use something like audit2allow and allow the specific things that
>syslog needs to work with your pipe. As luck would have it, I wrote an
>article on this very thing in the latest sysadmin magazine: 
>
>http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9820/sam0508a/0508a.htm
>  
>
Wow!  I'm reading your article and already making changes to my servers 
(yes, all of them) to make better use of SELinux.  I forgot that I had 
enabled SELinux at install and failed to look into just what it is.  I'm 
sure I'll have this FIFO working again soon enough.  Thank you!

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