[TriLUG] SELinux and Nagios

[Owen Berry]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:14:32PM -0700, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Owen Berry wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone have any experience running Nagios on a SELinux enabled box?
> >I am working with a RHEL4 installation and having a problem.
> >
> >The CGI's are working fine, which is a good start, but they call the
> >check_nagios plugin, and are getting permission denied when they do
> >that. Running it from the command line works fine.
> >
> >I can give more details if anyone has knowledge of this.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Owen
> >
> >  
> >
> http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9820/sam0508a/0508a.htm
> 
> Aaron S. Joyner

Thanks for the link. In case anyone else is interested, here's another:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/

Our sysadmins decided to just disable SELinux. I'm quite disappointed
that they took the easy way out, but I can understand it with their lack
of time, and the fact that it's an internal server.

Owen