SELinux policies for Nagios on RHEL 4

[Patrick Morris]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Joseph Filla wrote:

> As I have seen posted before, one has to disable SELinux so the cgi  
> scripts can run. I too encountered the problems and had to disable  
> SELinux. Is there any progress being made to get the cgis to work  
> correctly or to define a policy so SELinux and Nagios cgis can coexist?

SELinux does *not* have to be disabled completely for Nagios to run;
that's just a very common recommendation often made to people who don't
understand enough about SELinux to configure it correctly.

Recent versions of Fedora, for example, have a set of SELinux policies
that seem to work fine.

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