m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I'm getting literally hundreds of lines in my daily logwatch >> (under Centos-5.5), reading >> --------------------------------------- >> NULL security context for user, but SELinux in permissive mode, >> continuing () >> --------------------------------------- >> >> These began when I started running fail2ban (with shorewall), >> though that is probably a coincidence. >> >> In any case, what does this line mean, >> and is there any way of stopping it (short of stopping selinux)?
> Sounds to me as though it's *not* a coincidence. Who does fail2ban run as > - for us, it's root, but is it different for you? It is running as root, according to "ps aux | grep fail2ban". (I run it as a service "sudo service fail2ban restart".) Do you get my message (NULL security context ...)? I've no idea what this means, or what it is referring to. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos