[Sussex] FC4 - FTP timeout

[Jon Fautley]

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Brendan Whelan wrote:
> More information on intermittent FTP problem - in the message log there are
> lots of "FTP session opened" and "FTP session closed" messages but some odd
> errors e.g.
> 
> Sep 25 12:21:42 c100091 kernel: audit(1159183302.010:46): avc:  denied  {
> write } for  pid=2464 comm="proftpd" name="661600" dev=dm-0 ino=6117997
> scontext=system_u:system_r:ftpd_t:s0 tcontext=root:object_r:user_home_t:s0
> tclass=dir
> Sep 25 12:21:42 c100091 kernel: audit(1159183302.010:47): avc:  denied  {
> add_name } for  pid=2464 comm="proftpd" name="661647a.jpg"
> scontext=system_u:system_r:ftpd_t:s0 tcontext=root:object_r:user_home_t:s0
> tclass=dir

That's SELinux. Is SELinux enabled on the system? Have you tweaked the
policy to allow proftpd to do the things it wants? I'm thinking not..

/j
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