[systemd-devel] rsync output is not captured in the journal

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 03:25:33PM +0100, Igor Bukanov wrote:
> On 5 January 2015 at 15:08, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
> > chcon -t bin_t /usr/bin/rsync, should stop SELinux from interfering, or
> > set the rsync_client boolean.
> >
> > http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/61646.html
> 
> Yes, that solved the problem. Now, why there were no any error
> messages about discarded rsync output? In particular, the system call
> in rsync that did the write returned success.

SELinux has DONTAUDIT rules, which simply silently cancel the syscall.
Most likely they are active here.

Zbyszek