Bug 439098 - restarts ntpd (even if unnecessary) with stderr to .xsession-errors, SElinux deny write.
Summary: restarts ntpd (even if unnecessary) with stderr to .xsession-errors, SElinux ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-date
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nils Philippsen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-26 23:03 UTC by archimerged Ark submedes
Modified: 2009-12-18 06:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 06:06:07 UTC
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Description archimerged Ark submedes 2008-03-26 23:03:37 UTC
Description of problem:

Menu item System/Administration/Date & Time, Network Time Protocol tab,
advanced features, select synchronize before starting, 
Ok, "Contacting NTP server, please wait" alert box, then an SE Linux
audit comes up, which would be ignored by:

allow ntpd_t user_home_t:file { read append };

Also system-config-date _always_ does service ntpd restart,
which it shouldn't if nothing was changed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Linux beta.localnet 2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9 #1 SMP Fri Mar 14 23:14:20 EDT
2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

How reproducible:  Every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Menu item System/Administration/Date & Time, Network Time Protocol tab,
advanced features, select synchronize before starting, 
2. Click OK.
3.
  
Actual results:
Always restarts ntpd even if no change.
ntpd gets SElinux error trying to write to .xsession-errors

Expected results:
Only restart ntpd if appropriate.
Make sure output is not directed to .xsession-errors.
(It was probably the restarting NTP server ... [OK] message,
but I didn't check).

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 06:54:32 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 lexual 2009-02-26 23:58:13 UTC
No selinux issues here, but it does seem to restart ntp, Fedora 10.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 12:27:58 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:06:07 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
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