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For some time now ddclient has not been working quite right. I made some
changes that finally brought to light the reason for this.

I removed the tweaked ddclient.conf, then yum removed ddclient, yum install 
ddclient, and finally edited the ddclient.conf file to make it happy.

I started getting errors. This sequence is typical:
Dec 14 14:40:29 me2 ddclient[5711]: WARNING:  updating xxxx.dyndns.org: nochg: 
No update required; unnecessary attempts to change to the current address are 
considered abusive
Dec 14 14:40:29 me2 ddclient[5711]: FATAL:    Cannot create file 
'/var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache'. (Permission denied)

I figured it's not nice to abuse the kind folks at dyndns so I dug further
into it.

"setenforce 0" allows it to run properly.

So I dug into the audit logs.
These two lines do not look right.
type=AVC msg=audit(1387064159.179:461956): avc:  denied  { getattr } for 
pid=6296 comm="ddclient" path="/var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache" dev=dm-0 
ino=2621901 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:dhcpc_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 
tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:var_t:s0 tclass=file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1387064159.179:461956): arch=c000003e syscall=4 
success=yes exit=0 a0=1b234a0 a1=1b02130 a2=1b02130 a3=28 items=0 ppid=6281 
pid=6296 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 
tty=(none) ses=10540 comm="ddclient" exe="/usr/bin/perl" 
subj=unconfined_u:system_r:dhcpc_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

ddclient with a dhcpc_t tag? I note there does not seem to be a ddclient_t
or similar tag on the system.

The ddclient is from epel. I'd expect it to have a proper selinux setup.
I am rash enough to expect that should be handled in the ddclient rpm
setup.

What do I need to do to get this to work properly with "setenforce 1"
restored?

{^_^}   Joanne

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