[Samba] SELinux Issue: unix_dgram_socket

[Robert Buck]

Hi Jeremy, the other notable thing to be aware of that during this time we
were attempting a sink of file systems from P****** into a samba based
system. And we had 128 threads running syncing up files as large as 128 gig
in size.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 5:07 PM Robert Buck <robert.buck at som.com> wrote:

> The only unusual activity on the host that we see is that for some reason
> the Red Hat network manager was going into a crash loop that this repeated
> itself again and again for hours.
>
> And the second thing that we notice is logstash was also going into a
> crash loop and creating lots of io activity.
>
> As a result of these syslog was being swamped with messages.
>
> Bob
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:22 PM Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 04:15:51PM -0500, Robert Buck via samba wrote:
>> >Ok, thanks. But does this make sense given that we’ve been testing
>> >successfully  for more than eight months and development and staging?
>> With
>> >selinux enabled.
>> >
>> >Thoughts?
>>
>> I don't know how SELinux decides what to restrict.
>> Did something change recently (update or something) ?
>>
>> The Samba daemons certainly need access to that
>> directory to send messages.
>>
>> --
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