[packagers] Nagios + selinux

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Fri Mar 14 12:46:07 CET 2008


On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
>
>> Christoph Maser wrote:
>>> 
>>> i have been with Ralph at Chemnitzer Linuxtage and i think i know enough
>>> to build a module for C5. You are right the selinux stuff is highly
>>> distribution specific and i don't see a solution comeing up for C4.
>> 
>> Me neither. I almost pulled my hair out changing apache policies on
>> RHEL4.
>> 
>> AND: You cannot load a new policy without having the *complete*
>> policy-source in place. And nobody has that (normally).
>
> So can we say that the expert's opinion is that we drop SELinux support for 
> RHEL4/CentOS-4 ? And maybe even advise people to disable SELinux (or at least 
> run it in Targeted Policy and unconfined_t for everything from RPMforge) ?

After reading it again, I realise that 'drop' is quite unfortunate 
word-choice since we never supported it in the first place...

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