Who stole xinetd

[wdtj]

OK, I installed FC4T3 and I can't find xinetd to enable the cvs pserver. I'm guessing it was absorbed into SELinix somehow, but can't seem to find any reference on how it works.

Anyone have a clue?

:confused:

[Flyen]

yum install xinetd
;-)

[magcomment]

It's not missing on my full install of FC4T3.

[wdtj]

So, maybe it's just the desktop installation that is missing it? I didn't know it was even optional!

[wdtj]

Well, I installed xinetd, set up my cvs pserver and started getting permission denied errors from the cvs server. When I turn off selinux the errors disappear.

Ok, after reading about policies on selinux (from the FC3 selinux FAQ), I was wondering how xinetd and cvs's pserver fit in, and if something was different in this area in FC4. Where can I find this out?

[mooninite]

SELinux only adds an extra layer of security. You can see this extra layer with


ls -Z


SELinux has a default rule set in Fedora Core called "targeted" that has a set list of daemons (httpd, cvsd, bind, dhcp, etc etc) that require special security tags (like username:group permissions for users but this is for daemons) that you will find with 'ls -Z'. Understanding what SELinux is took me a while too, but I seem to grasp it well now.

In order to give your files in your cvs root the correct tags you will simply need to run

restorecon * -R

in your cvs root. This will assign the default security tag for the cvs daemon to each file and in all subdirectories.

[jon3k]

I'm really interesting in learning more about SELinux (I've had to fixfiles relabel to fix a few issues, and I don't even know what its doing!).

Can you suggest any good sites to read up on it?

[gavinw6662]

Jon3k:

About half way down this (http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/apachebasic.htm) page you will find some general info about SElinux settings. It has helped me in the past with some of my problems. And most importantly, this (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/rhlcommon-section-0068.html) page has a lot of good info to read up on!! Enjoy, it is powerful, but a very useful program for a server that is allowing remote conenctions (i.e. Web, and ftp services).