From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Description of problem: When starting ntpd during boot on a pretty vanilla FC3 I get the following messages: Starting ntpd: [ OK ] audit(1100712660.440:0): avc: denied { read } for pid=1939 exe=/usr/sbin/ntpd name=mtab dev=hda3 ino=50182 scontext=user_u:system_r:ntpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:etc_runtime_t tclass=file audit(1100712660.440:0): avc: denied { read } for pid=1939 exe=/usr/sbin/ntpd name=meminfo dev=proc ino=-268435454 scontext=user_u:system_r:ntpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:proc_t tclass=file Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.19 ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-4 Steps to Reproduce: 1. install ntpd 2. chkconfig ntpd on 3. reboot 4. wait Actual Results: seeing above audit messages Expected Results: see none of the above messages
Fixed in the fedora-updates policy. Currently selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.30
confirmed fix in selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.35