[TriLUG] Need help with MySQL 5 on Centos 4.2

[Paul G. Szabady]

Greetings,

You might try running 'restorecon -R -v /var/lib/mysql' (without the quotes.)


-- 
Paul
@ Thy Service

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:30:31PM -0500, Chad Thomsen wrote:
>> Jan 23 23:22:38 localhost kernel: audit(1138076558.900:34): avc:  denied
>>  {
>> append } for  pid=4265 comm="mysqld"
>> name="localhost.localdomain.err" dev=dm-0 ino=1769773
>> scontext=root:system_r:mysqld_t tcontext=root:object_r:var_lib_t
>> tclass=file
>> Jan 23 23:22:38 localhost kernel: audit(1138076558.901:35): avc:  denied
>>  {
>> append } for  pid=4265 comm="mysqld" name="localhost.localdomain.err"
>> dev=dm-0 ino=1769773 scontext=root:system_r:mysqld_t
>> tcontext=root:object_r:var_lib_t tclass=file
>> Jan 23 23:22:38 localhost kernel: audit(1138076558.931:36): avc:  denied
>>  {
>> write } for  pid=4265 comm="mysqld" name="mysql" dev=dm-0 ino=1769715
>> scontext=root:system_r:mysqld_t tcontext=root:object_r:var_lib_t
>> tclass=dir
>> Jan 23 23:22:39 localhost kernel: audit(1138076559.032:37): avc:  denied
>>  {
>> read write } for  pid=4265 comm="mysqld" name="ibdata1" dev=dm-0
>> ino=1769770
>> scontext=root:system_r:mysqld_t tcontext=root:object_r:var_lib_t
>> tclass=file
>
> These are SELinux error messages. Quick and dirty fix is to disable
> SELinux - 'setenforce 0' as root will do it until the system is rebooted.
> Edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux to read 'SELINUX=disabled' to kill it
> permanently.
>
> It's a distinct possibility that mysql5 may require custom selinux policy
> written to function correctly. Or you may be able to tweak it with the
> available booleans, however I'm not an SELinux expert. :)
>
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> David W. Aquilina
> david at starkindler.us
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