Re: how to implement my unused /var partition in FC4?

From: Robert Nichols (SEE_SIGNATURE_at_localhost.localdomain.invalid)
Date: 07/15/05

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    Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:34:41 +0000 (UTC)

    In article <1121403926.335199.28760@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
    andrew <seawolf@scssi.org> wrote:
    :After some research and poking around, i am no longer sure my problem
    :is LVM.
    :
    :Sitting at a normal, working machine just now, watching it boot, I saw
    :the "Setting up Logical Volume Management: /var/lock: mkdir failed:
    :... " message. The boot was normal and quick. So perhaps the latter
    :error message is not a clue to solve my problem.
    :
    :However, i just discovered what /may/ be a clue: when I run dmesg, i
    :get many lines of the following:
    :
    :audit(1121403329.184:12727): avc: denied { search } for pid=2249
    :comm="cups-c onfig-dae" name=/ dev=sda5 ino=2
    :scontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_config_t tcont
    :ext=system_u:object_r:file_t tclass=dir
    :
    :with the numbers in the parentheses incrementing with each new line.
    :
    :(note the part about sda5 (that is my "restored" partition))
    :
    :(dmesg doesn't seem to be printing the normal messages it is supposed
    :to.)

    Unless your /etc/selinux/config contains a line "SELINUX=enforcing"
    those audit messages are harmless. To fix them you probably just need
    to restore the security contexts in your new /var partition by running
    "restorecon -R /var". Sorry, I didn't think about that in my original
    reply. I disabled SELinux a while back after reaching the conclusion
    that it was way more trouble than it was worth in my situation. 

    -- 
Bob Nichols         AT comcast.net I am "rnichols42"
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