Re: awstats munged httpd rights in SElinux, how to fix?

On Friday 01 August 2008, Tim wrote:
Tim:
NB: I've done this with a spinning headache, so you ought to be able to
manage this as well, without my headache.

Gene Heskett:
ouch, like my aching back, thats not good at all, mine is from 70+ years
of abuse & 25 extra pounds, does your's have a reason?

Dunno if my headache's from the cold I've got, or the medication for it.
I do know why my back aches - getting stuck, many years ago, hauling
something heavy out of the back of a car...

I mention an alternative stats program

I see that is installed, but finding a viewer for it seems to be purely by
accident, it opened ELinks, whatever that is, when I clicked on its july
report from within midnight commander.

How did you access it? Elinks is a text-only web browser, rather like
Lynx, but also supports some rudimentary tables or frames layout.

Grumble... Question for the webalizer folks then? Why is there not a
link to the viewer in the k-menu's?

Well, actually, one doesn't usually access such things through the
system menus, but through your web browser. What would be needed is
preloading the bookmarks on any browser that's on your system, with
<http://localhost/usage>. But then we don't do anything similar for all
the cgi-scripts that might be included with a web browser.

It's another of those read the manual / read the configuration file /
look at its scripts, things. It used to be that such things as
statistic analysers were programs that you'd install by hand, because
you wanted it, and would already have known about it.

Having it installed, but effectively unavailable doesn't make a lot of
sense to me. If there had been such a menu entry, its likely I would have
used it rather than doing a freshmeat search for the newest, highly rated
such tool & then went hunting in yumex for a suitable rpm.

Over the years I'd used webalizer, finding it's simple one page summary
rather useful. But more recently, preferred AWStats features. I'd left
it alone, before, as being rather convoluted. But when I changed
webhosts, they gave me with a poorly configured webalizer, and a fairly
well configured AWStats. And since I can't really reconfigure them,
thanks to how the host runs, I just went with the flow.

One thing that annoys me about them both, is the referrer stats. The
links for who referred to you is sanitised, somewhat. So you do have to
manually check your logs to find exactly what pages have referred to
you. You just know, when your stats have suddenly increased for one
month, that you've become the address on one of those random "exit this
porn site" buttons. ;-)

ls -l /etc/awstats/:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62137 2008-07-30 17:28
awstats.coyote.coyote.den.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62130 2008-07-21
17:17 awstats.localhost.localdomain.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62130
2008-07-21 17:17 awstats.model.conf

And I haven't touched what the rpm installed.

To cut down on workload, and avoid meaningless data/traffic, I'd remove
all but one, and customise it to suit your needs. Else, once an hour,
all three configuration files will be used to read your stats.

Since I'm running an oddball port # to the outside world, I was rather
surprised to see the googlebot was there every day this last month.

I can think of a few things: Faked user-agent string, hoping that the
googlebot might be allowed in where ordinary clients might shooed away.
And if you've ever mentioned the address for your server somewhere in
public, it'll have been indexed. Big brother is watching you, and I
don't mean that crappy TV show... ;-)

Grrr. Must be time I changed the domain name, but I'd still have to email it
to my friends, who like you, are many and sundry. Damned if I do & damned if
I don't. I should do a google search for one of the pictures there and see
if google has the link. I just tried google for 3 of my pix, but google
doesn't have a link. Just as well, I occasionally have stuff there that
burglars would love.

Are you still using your computer as root...

Some of this started when I tried to build OpenMovieEditor, and F8
apparently doesn't have enough GLX stuff to build it, 8 OpenGL
functions seem to have been stripped from the library by RedHat.
Reason? Damned if I know.

here is whats missing:

gcc -D_REENTRANT -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/opt/gmerlin/lib -o .libs/bgavdump
bgavdump.o ../lib/.libs/libgmerlin_avdec.so -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libgavl.so
/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecDecode'
/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecInit2'
/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecClose'
/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecOpen'
/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecSetConfiguration'
/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecInit'
/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to
`faacDecGetCurrentConfiguration'
/usr/lib/libavcodec.so.51: undefined reference to `faacDecGetErrorMessage'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [bgavdump] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/opt/gmerlin-all-in-one-20080715/gmerlin_avdecoder/gmerlin-avdecoder-0.1.8/tests'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Compilation in gmerlin_avdecoder failed

I interpret that as saying that even though the functions are in the header
files ok, the library itself does not have them. Grrrr.

I'd still stick with using your computer as yourself, just use another
terminal as root for configuration issues. Especially if you're opening
your computer up to the world as a webserver. You do want as much
protection as you can manage, in that situation.

I'm not directly connected to the net here, dd-wrt, x86 version running on an
old 450 mhz k6-iii is between me and the black hats. It gets about 500 root
login attempts a day, but the password is both long and unique.

[...]

Around here, we have neighbours who like playing with power tools all
week and weekend long, lawn mowers, chainsaws, angle grinders, and other
things that I haven't figured out. Compare that to me - the other week
I pruned several trees, and removed a whole one, using nothing other
than a hand saw, branch clippers, and brute force. The only noise I
subjected my neighbours to was the occasional swear word.

Yeah I hear that. I have about a 5 minute monologue I've developed over the
years for such things as hitting my thumb with a hammer or similar. You can
hear it well past the property line too.

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I have more humility in my little finger than you have in your whole ____
BODY!
-- from "Cerebus" #82

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