Bug 459667
| Summary: | syslogd restart errors out with 'execvp: Permission denied' | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Geoff Quelch <quelch> | ||||||
| Component: | sysklogd | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 4.7 | CC: | theinric | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-08-27 09:54:41 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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Hi Geoff, what version of sysklogd are you using? Running "rpm -q sysklogd" would tell. Does /var/log/audit/audit.log say anything about syslog? Could you please run "strace -f -s 4096 -o /tmp/syslog.strace /etc/init.d/syslog start" and attach the output file? Thank you. Here is the information you requested. [root@npws01 chkrootkit]# rpm -q sysklogd sysklogd-1.4.1-44.el5 There is nothing in the audit logs concerning syslog. Created attachment 314749 [details]
Output from the strace command.
The attached file is the output from the requeste command:
strace -f -s 4096 -o /tmp/syslog.strace /etc/init.d/syslog start
Thank you.
My apologies, my comments #2 and #3 should be discarded, I ran the command on the wrong host... Here is the correct information: [root@npfbs00 log]# rpm -q sysklogd sysklogd-1.4.1-27.el4 There are no files in the audit directory. Created attachment 314752 [details]
Output from strace command on correct host
Geoff, what does this command show? #ls -Z /etc/init.d/syslog /sbin/rsyslog Thanks, here is the info... [root@npfbs00 tmp]# ls -Z /etc/init.d/syslog /sbin/rsyslog ls: /sbin/rsyslog: No such file or directory -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:initrc_exec_t /etc/init.d/syslog Ooops my fault. again please: #ls -Z /sbin/syslogd Could you switch selinux into permissive mode for a while and start syslogd. Just to be sure it's not selinux related. Thanks. The revised command: [root@npfbs00 tmp]# ls -Z /sbin/syslogd -rwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:syslogd_exec_t /sbin/syslogd Put selinux in permissive mode... [root@npfbs00 tmp]# /etc/init.d/syslog start Starting system logger: [ OK ] Starting kernel logger: Thanks. hmm, it seems you have problem with selinux here. Check you /var/log/messages. Relabeling your filesystem might be useful. touch /.autorelabel reboot |
Description of problem: The syslogd is down and can't be restarted: [root@npfbs00 log]# /etc/init.d/syslog start Starting system logger: execvp: Permission denied [FAILED] Starting kernel logger: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@npfbs00 log]# syslogd -v syslogd 1.4.1 How reproducible: Currently program is broken. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: