Investigate and Resolve SELinux Issues

Question 1

What command is used to view contents of the /var/log/messages file?

Answer 1

less /var/log/messages

Question 2

What command verifies the SELinux context for the directory from where the httpd service serves the content by default, /var/www/html?

Answer 2

ls -ldZ /var/www/html

Question 3

What command is used to search the audit.log for messages and based on time?

Answer 3

ausearch -m AVC -ts today

Question 4

What command is used to resolve the context issue with an Apache server directory, and all files underneath?

Answer 4

semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t ‘/custom(/.*)?’

restorecon -Rv /custom