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How to resolve Plesk WordPress toolkit action log rotate failed on SELinux?
WordPress Toolkit is a feature-rich management interface that allows anyone to install, configure, and manage WordPress websites.
WordPress Toolkit Deluxe, with tools such as Cloning and Smart Updates, is now included as part of cPanel.
Availability of these tools may need to be enabled by your hosting provider.
Typically, errors might look as shown below:
- On SELinux enabled server
/etc/cron.daily/logrotatefail to rotate WordPress Toolkit action logs:error: stat of /usr/local/psa/var/modules/wp-toolkit/action_logs/db05b569-01f4-4393-b30e-22f6ae72e091/db05b569-01f4-4393-b30e-22f6ae72e091.log failed: Permission denied
- In the system logs the following can be found:
SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/logrotate from getattr access on the file /usr/local/psa/var/modules/wp-toolki
t/action_logs/4b6499f3-9efe-423f-91f2-b3a9f0fa3763/4b6499f3-9efe-423f-91f2-b3a9f0fa3763.log
Today, let us see the steps followed by our Support techs to resolve it:
- Firstly, connect to the server via SSH.
- Then, install
audit2allowutility:For Debian/Ubuntu:apt-get install -y policycoreutils-python-utils
For Centos:
-
yum install -y policycoreutils policycoreutils-devel - Generate the custom SELinux policy:
ausearch -c ‘logrotate’ –raw | audit2allow -M my-logrotate
# semodule -i my-logrotate.pp
- Firstly, create a text file
mylog.txtwith:type=AVC msg=audit(1633265286.201:716): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=16314 comm=”logrotate” path=”/usr/local/psa/var/modules/wp-toolkit/action_logs/d94c4998-63e0-406f-8e49-c45e896e1d2c/d94c4998-63e0-406f-8e49-c45e896e1d2c.log” dev=”sda1″ ino=25224436 scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1633265286.201:716): arch=c000003e syscall=6 success=no exit=-13 a0=c8adc0 a1=7ffc33701310 a2=7ffc33701310 a3=2 items=0 ppid=16312 pid=16314 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=6 comm=”logrotate” exe=”/usr/sbin/logrotate” subj=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(1633265286.201:716): proctitle=2F7573722F7362696E2F6C6F67726F74617465002D73002F7661722F6C69622F6C6F67726F746174652F6C6F67726F746174652E737461747573002F6574632F6C6F67726F746174652E636F6E66 - Then, generate and install the module:
cat mylog.txt | audit2allow -M my-logrotate
semodule -i my-logrotate.pp
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Conclusion
To sum up,today we saw steps followed by our Support Engineers to resolve Plesk WordPress toolkit action log rotate failed error.
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