On Friday 26 June 2009 13:28:56 Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

No, it doesn't. I did a test install of the rpm a few days ago and got a lot 
of SELinux problems.

Tony


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