Permission denied when running from xinetd
Ron Yorston
rmy at tigress.co.uk
Tue Nov 27 09:05:52 GMT 2007
Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 17:37 -0500, freightcar at gmail.com wrote:
>> When I run rsyncd from xinetd and try to rsync I will get permission
>> denied error:
>>
>> rsync: chdir /home/test failed : Permission denied (13)
>
>That's very bizarre, since the daemon is ostensibly running as root and
>the permissions on /home/test clearly should allow the chdir.
Hmm. Bizarre things happening when root and different behaviour when run
as a daemon versus from the command line. Those are the sort of symptoms
one gets from SELinux denials. Is SELinux enabled on this system?
Ron
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