Summary: SELinux is preventing /sbin/setfiles access to a leaked /ffc.log file descriptor. Detailed Description: [setfiles has a permissive type (setfiles_t). This access was not denied.] SELinux denied access requested by the setfiles command. It looks like this is either a leaked descriptor or setfiles output was redirected to a file it is not allowed to access. Leaks usually can be ignored since SELinux is just closing the leak and reporting the error. The application does not use the descriptor, so it will run properly. If this is a redirection, you will not get output in the /ffc.log. You should generate a bugzilla on selinux-policy, and it will get routed to the appropriate package. You can safely ignore this avc. Allowing Access: You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Additional Information: Source Context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:setfiles_t:s0-s0:c0.c102 3 Target Context unconfined_u:object_r:etc_runtime_t:s0 Target Objects /ffc.log [ file ] Source setfiles Source Path /sbin/setfiles Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages policycoreutils-2.0.81-3.fc13 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.7.15-4.fc13 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name leaks Host Name (removed) Platform Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.33.1-24.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 30 18:21:22 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen Thu 22 Apr 2010 01:30:17 PM EDT Last Seen Thu 22 Apr 2010 01:30:17 PM EDT Local ID 4b166a4b-b0f1-41a4-9b68-0c0b5db342be Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages node=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1271957417.109:21183): avc: denied { append } for pid=1964 comm="setfiles" path="/ffc.log" dev=dm-0 ino=80384 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:setfiles_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:etc_runtime_t:s0 tclass=file node=localhost.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1271957417.109:21183): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=17989f0 a1=1787010 a2=17832c0 a3=7fffa4461a70 items=0 ppid=1943 pid=1964 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=1 comm="setfiles" exe="/sbin/setfiles" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:setfiles_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) Hash String generated from leaks,setfiles,setfiles_t,etc_runtime_t,file,append audit2allow suggests: #============= setfiles_t ============== allow setfiles_t etc_runtime_t:file append;