I have a cron job that restarts vpnc every few hours. The problem is that vpnc spits text out when it starts up, so I end up with cron mail. If I redirect this to a file, I get this denial.. host=gelk type=AVC msg=audit(1211288879.660:32): avc: denied { append } for pid=4492 comm="vpnc" path="/home/davej/vpnc.log" dev=md0 ino=48203701 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:vpnc_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=file host=gelk type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1211288879.660:32): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=15dc7d0 a1=15dc3d0 a2=15d6770 a3=0 items=0 ppid=4488 pid=4492 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=4 comm="vpnc" exe="/usr/sbin/vpnc" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:vpnc_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) If I redirect it to /dev/null, I get this .. host=gelk type=AVC msg=audit(1211558402.647:1821): avc: denied { read } for pid=19966 comm="vpnc" path="pipe:[1325021]" dev=pipefs ino=1325021 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:vpnc_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=fifo_file host=gelk type=AVC msg=audit(1211558402.647:1821): avc: denied { write } for pid=19966 comm="vpnc" path="pipe:[1325022]" dev=pipefs ino=1325022 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:vpnc_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:crond_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=fifo_file host=gelk type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1211558402.647:1821): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=2837460 a1=2837870 a2=28376b0 a3=20 items=0 ppid=19960 pid=19966 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=271 comm="vpnc" exe="/usr/sbin/vpnc" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:vpnc_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
Cron one is fixed in selinux-policy-3.3.1-56.fc9 and selinux-policy-3.4.1-1.fc10.src.rpm