Re: Yee-HAH! 'smartd' issues 70 avc's when it tries to send mail...

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:50:27 EST, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx said:

> I'm wondering if it would make more sense to push a patch upstream to the
> kernel-utils crew.  Reading the smartd manpage in more detail, it looks like
> feeding it a '-M exec /usr/sbin/sendmail' (or building with that as the
> default) would let us only have to add sendmail_exec_t rather than all those.

Or that *would* work, if the smartd code didn't use popen() to actually run it,
giving us a gratuitous '/bin/sh -c'.  Looks like some fairly hefty reworking to
make it do the whole pipe()/fork()/exec() thing itself.

Blech. ;)

Attachment: pgpBUuFdPDiYT.pgp
Description: PGP signature


[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Big List of Linux Books]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Campsites]     [KDE Users]     [Gnome Users]

  Powered by Linux