From: russell@coker.com.au (Russell Coker)
To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
Subject: [refpolicy] xconsole and related stuff patch
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 01:09:29 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201111090109.30259.russell@coker.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB935AE.10106@tresys.com>
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@tresys.com> wrote:
> On 11/07/11 07:46, Russell Coker wrote:
> > The attached patch moves the xconsole policy to logging.pp from the
> > xserver policy. It's more about logging than the X server and there are
> > a lot of systems which have syslogd configured to write to /dev/xconsole
> > but that have no X server installed.
>
> I'm afraid I don't agree; its still associated with display on X, even
> without a functioning X server.
Or any other process running as root or the adm group that is configured to
read it.
> When you say that there are lot of
> systems with syslogd using xconsole, are you referring to Debian systems?
Yes, syslogd is configured to write to it regardless of whether X is
installed.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-08 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-07 12:46 [refpolicy] xconsole and related stuff patch Russell Coker
2011-11-08 13:59 ` Christopher J. PeBenito
2011-11-08 14:09 ` Russell Coker [this message]
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