Unable to write the logs on NFS share after enabling the Selinux

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Before enabling selinux, the logs were being written to a log file which is on nfs share. But after enabling selinux, the logs are not being written and throwing below error messages:

    Feb 08 07:59:58 testmachine rsyslogd[63903]: omfile: creating parent directories for file  'Permission denied' failed: /myshare/nfs-share1/sub-share [v8.24.0-57.el7_9.3]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Rsyslog
  • Selinux
  • NFS

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