Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Friday 26 June 2009 01:04:50 Admiral Beotch wrote:
>> I haven't finished reading the selinux/apache document, but while testing
>> out the restore process with my previous chcon statement, I realized
>> backuppc was unable to write some restore files to the TOPDIR filesystem so
>> I changed the context again to:
>>
>> chcon -R -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /BackupData
>>
>> and it can now prefectly restore files as expected. I love this software!
>>
>> I'll post an update later after I've had a chance to fully dig into the
>> selinux/apache document.
>>
>> Just a thought going through my head... Since httpd is running as backuppc
>> and this is a dedicated backup server, I think I'm gonna be ok with this
>> r/w context on this mounted file system...
> 
> Previously I've installed BackupPC from source and sorted out the SELinux 
> problems by hand. Now I'm about to install an backup BackupPC server and want 
> to use the EPEL rpm if possible on Centos-5.3.
> 
> It would be really helpful if you could summarise the SELinux changes you 
> made 
> to get it working.

Also, did you have the mounted drive in place when the RPM was installed?  If 
not, the RPM might have configured things by itself.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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