Description of problem:
 While running RHTS tests. We see some AVC denials reported by tests. After looking into the issue it is the test running causing the AVC denials. It is a background cron job I believe it is logwatch.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
logwatch-7.3-6.el5

How reproducible:
Seemingly random

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Not sure
  
Actual results:

Saw this first with RHEL5.3-Server-20081203.0
/sbin/ausearch -sv no -m AVC -m USER_AVC -m SELINUX_ERR -ts 12/9/2008 1:1:32
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 time->Tue Dec 9 01:01:42 2008
 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1228802502.831:24): arch=14 syscall=5 success=no exit=-13 a0=1005c948 a1=10241 a2=1b6 a3=0 items=0 ppid=30662 pid=30665 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="perl" exe="/usr/bin/perl" subj=system_u:system_r:logwatch_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

 type=AVC msg=audit(1228802502.831:24): avc:  denied  { write } for pid=30665  comm="perl" name="services" dev=dm-0 ino=2785761
scontext=system_u:system_r:logwatch_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 tclass=dir

This avc shows logwatch trying to write to a directory named services
that is labeled etc_t. This would indicate that it is somewhere under /etc.

During Don's kernel testing last night we saw this again. 
RHEL5.4-Server-20090526.nightly

 time->Wed May 27 00:27:40 2009
 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1243398460.748:15): arch=14 syscall=5 success=no  exit=-13 a0=1005c550 a1=10241 a2=1b6 a3=0 items=0 ppid=32608 pid=32611 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="perl" exe="/usr/bin/perl" subj=system_u:system_r:logwatch_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

 type=AVC msg=audit(1243398460.748:15): avc:  denied  { write } for pid=32611 comm="perl" name="services" dev=dm-0 ino=8741914 scontext=system_u:system_r:logwatch_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 tclass=dir

Expected results:

Additional info:
Spoke with Dan briefly he thinks this is possibly a leaked file descriptor.