Hi there,

I have a problem on a 5.5 centos.


I want to run a soft that is daemonized, and listens on port 6789.
This soft is launched through a php page, so, by the apache user.
The problème is that the apache user does not has rights to open / listen on a port.

I tried to add apache user to the root group, but it won't help.
In the application log, I have this every second :


(...)
Sat Nov 6 13:30:13 2010 ERROR Binding socket failed for 127.0.0.1: Err
No 13, Permission denied
Sat Nov 6 13:30:14 2010 ERROR Binding socket failed for 127.0.0.1: Err
No 13, Permission denied
(...)

etc etc etc.

I tried to add apache user in the sudoers with a nopasswd but it's still a no go.

That is it! Any info, ideas, etc will be more than welcome!

Thanks a lot,
licks0re

Hi,

Since you're running Centos, I guess it's SELinux that's not allowing the apache user to open port 6789.
You can run:
to see if that's the case and if yes, either set SELinux to permissive mode, or run:
to allow apache user to open that port.

Regards

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Hi Bathory,

Awesome, that's working now.
I must admint I have to check how selinux works. I'm usually using opensuse and I'm quite new to centos.

Well, it's working perfectly, thanks a million!

Glad to see it worked.
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Cheers

This covers RHEL, therefore Centos, inc a lot about SELinux http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...ion/index.html