From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: fam should be disabled if selinux is in enforcing mode. This will prevent numberous errors/churning, etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fam-2.6.10-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot w/enforcing 2. check /var/log/messages after 60 minutes or so.... 3. Actual Results: e.g.: Apr 19 17:51:03 fedora xinetd[1386]: Activating service sgi_fam Apr 19 17:56:59 fedora fam[4304]: listen: Permission denied Apr 19 17:56:59 fedora fam[4305]: listen: Permission denied Apr 19 17:56:59 fedora fam[4306]: listen: Permission denied Apr 19 17:56:59 fedora fam[4307]: listen: Permission denied Apr 19 17:56:59 fedora fam[4308]: listen: Permission denied Apr 19 17:56:59 fedora fam[4309]: listen: Permission denied Apr 19 17:56:59 fedora kernel: audit(1082422619.299:0): avc: denied { search } for pid=4304 exe=/usr/bin/fam name=sys dev= ino=4120 scontext=system_u:system_r:inetd_child_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_t tclass=dir Apr 19 17:56:59 fedora fam[4310]: listen: Permission denied Apr 19 17:56:59 fedora kernel: audit(1082422619.300:0): avc: denied { listen } for pid=4304 exe=/usr/bin/fam path=/tmp/.fam_socket scontext=system_u:system_r:inetd_child_t tcontext=system_u:system_r:inetd_child_t tclass=unix_stream_socket Additional info:
This is fixed in RawHide. fam is deprecated there, obsoleted by gamin which run per-user (or per session), hence avoiding the incompatibility with SELinux. thanks for the feedback, Daniel