Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 439098
restarts ntpd (even if unnecessary) with stderr to .xsession-errors, SElinux deny write.
Last modified: 2009-12-18 01:06:07 EST
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:
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
No selinux issues here, but it does seem to restart ntp, Fedora 10.
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