Good evening, could somebody please point out my mistake? Why is BIRD telling that it can't access /var/lib/foo/bird.conf? $ birdc configure soft BIRD 2.0.7 ready. Reading configuration from /etc/bird.conf /etc/bird.conf:206:10 Unable to open included file /var/lib/foo/bird.conf: Permission denied $ $ tail /etc/bird.conf # # protocol bgp client2 from rr_clients { # neighbor 10.0.2.1; # } # # protocol bgp client3 from rr_clients { # neighbor 10.0.3.1; # } include "/var/lib/foo/bird.conf"; # This is line 206 $ $ ps aux | grep bird bird 29334 0.0 0.1 43752 2968 ? Ss 00:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/bird -f -u bird -g bird root 29531 0.0 0.0 112724 960 pts/0 S+ 00:58 0:00 grep --color=auto bird $ $ ls -ld /var/lib/foo/ /var/lib/foo/bird.conf drwxr-x---. 2 foo foo 4096 Feb 27 00:53 /var/lib/foo/ -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 10 Feb 27 00:53 /var/lib/foo/bird.conf $ $ id bird uid=996(bird) gid=993(bird) groups=993(bird),1000(foo) $ $ strace -fff -p 29334 -s 4096 […] open("/var/lib/foo/bird.conf", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) […] ^C $ But: $ su - bird -s /bin/bash -c "head /var/lib/foo/bird.conf" # Include $ And: $ su - bird -s /bin/bash -c "id" uid=996(bird) gid=993(bird) groups=993(bird),1000(foo) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 $ Even it's not relevant: $ getenforce Permissive $ Regards, Robert