[rt-users] RE: Fedora core 3 with FAST-CGI errors (Todd McCullough)

[Glen Gyldersleve]

This may not be the fix, but I ran into a similar problem using Fedora
core 3,which was a "permission denied" error in writing back to the file
system (actually it was with a wiki, but the idea is the same).

The answer - SELinux security config.  RedHat bundles in a very
"helpful" security feature that sandboxes different user processes (like
httpd).  And does nice, helpful things like not allowing the process to
write to the filesystem even though the permissions are absolutely and
utterly and truly correct [See admin bang head against wall].

I figured this out when I browsed the Fedora site for ideas on why my
httpd was not able to write to the filesystem...

Hope that helps.

/Glen Gyldersleve



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>    1. RE: Fedora core 3 with FAST-CGI errors (Todd McCullough)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:07:01 -0500
> From: "Todd McCullough" <tmccullo at n-able.com>
> Subject: RE: [rt-users] Fedora core 3 with FAST-CGI errors
> To: "Rt-Users" <rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com>, "O4Tom"
> 	<2o4tom at gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <MMEPLNOCLMIJILKDICLGMEGPCEAA.tmccullo at n-able.com>
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> 
> I double checked the permissions and still no luck....
> 
> [root at rt rt3]# ll
> total 56
> drwxr-xr-x  2 www rt 4096 Jan  3 16:20 bin
> drwxr-xr-x  2 www rt 4096 Jan  3 18:25 etc
> drwxr-xr-x  4 www rt 4096 Jan  3 16:20 lib
> drwxr-xr-x  6 www rt 4096 Jan  3 16:20 local
> drwxr-xr-x  2 www rt 4096 Jan  3 16:20 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x  4 www rt 4096 Jan  3 16:20 share
> drwxr-xr-x  5 www rt 4096 Jan  3 16:20 var
> 
> 		[root at rt rt3]# cd bin/
> 		[root at rt bin]# ll
> 		total 156
> 		-rwxr-xr-x  1 www rt  3058 Dec 30 11:33 
> mason_handler.fcgi
> 		-rw-r--r--  1 www rt  2283 Dec 30 11:33 
> mason_handler.scgi
> 		-rwxr-xr-x  1 www rt  7706 Dec 30 11:33 
> mason_handler.svc
> 		-rwxr-xr-x  1 www rt 54269 Dec 30 11:33 rt
> 		-rwxr-xr-x  1 www rt  7443 Dec 30 11:33 rt-crontool
> 		-rwxr-xr-x  1 www rt 21502 Dec 30 11:33 rt-mailgate
> 		-rw-r--r--  1 www rt  6794 Dec 30 11:33 standalone_httpd
> 		-rwxr-xr-x  1 www rt  4193 Dec 30 11:33 webmux.pl
> less /etc/group
> 	www:x:101:rt
> 	rt:x:502:www,apache
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: O4Tom [mailto:2o4tom at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:44 PM
> To: Todd McCullough
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] Fedora core 3 with FAST-CGI errors
> 
> 
> I had something similar to this on my setup, but I was using 
> apache 1.3.x
> 
> Make sure those files are set to something that can be read 
> by the account that you run your webserver as.  An easy way 
> to do that is to add your webserver user (apache, www, web, 
> etc) to the rt group in /etc/group
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:24:18 -0500, Todd McCullough 
> <tmccullo at n-able.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've installed everything without errors but when I start 
> apache I get 
> > the following errors.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've using
> >
> >
> >
> > Fedora core 3
> >
> > postgresql-7.4.6-1.FC3.2
> >
> > httpd-2.0.52-3.1
> >
> > perl-5.8.5-9
> >
> > mod_fastcgi-2.4.2-1
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Here's the errors!! Help!!!
> >
> >
> >
> > [Sun Dec 26 04:02:10 2004] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session 
> > mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads.
> >
> > [Sun Dec 26 04:02:10 2004] [notice] FastCGI: process manager 
> > initialized (pid 22080)
> >
> > [Sun Dec 26 04:02:10 2004] [warn] FastCGI: server 
> > "/opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi" started (pid 22081)
> >
> > [Sun Dec 26 04:02:10 2004] [notice] Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) 
> configured 
> > -- resuming normal operations
> >
> > FastCGI: can't start server "/opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi" (pid 
> > 22081),
> > execle() failed: Permission denied
> >
> > [Sun Dec 26 04:02:11 2004] [warn] FastCGI: server 
> > "/opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi" (pid 22081) terminated by calling 
> > exit with status '255'
> >
> > [Sun Dec 26 04:02:15 2004] [warn] FastCGI: server 
> > "/opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi" restarted (pid 22090)
> >
> > FastCGI: can't start server "/opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi" (pid 
> > 22090),
> > execle() failed: Permission denied
> >
> > [Sun Dec 26 04:02:15 2004] [warn] FastCGI: server 
> > "/opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi" (pid 22090) terminated by calling 
> > exit with status '255'
>