From: russell@coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 01:09:29 +1100 Subject: [refpolicy] xconsole and related stuff patch In-Reply-To: <4EB935AE.10106@tresys.com> References: <201111072346.45878.russell@coker.com.au> <4EB935AE.10106@tresys.com> Message-ID: <201111090109.30259.russell@coker.com.au> To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com List-Id: refpolicy.oss.tresys.com On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, "Christopher J. PeBenito" 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. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/