Re: Hourly Error Message of Unknown Provenance

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On 6/7/20 10:31 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
It was apparently something to do with selinux. I usually disable selinux as the first or second thing I do to a new install. I forgot to do that.

That should never be necessary.

A quick edit to /etc/selinux/config and a reboot solved removed the annoyance. (I cannot say 'solved the problem as I have no idea what the actual problem was: this was the 'sledge-hammer for walnuts' resolution.)

Now how you deciphered that that was where the error came from is just further evidence that far too much of system management is arcane magic:  Clarke's Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Oddly 1) I was running as root... so *who/what* was the 'unauthorized sender'? and

That sounds like a likely cause right there.  Why are you doing that?
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