On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 01:03 -0500, Volker Englisch wrote:
> I have a lot of avc messages in my log file indicating a problem with
> spamassassin/mqueue.
> I am running FC6 with a standard installation and don't know why there
> is a problem with the directory /var/spool/mqueue.
> $ ls -Zd mqueue
> drwx------ root mail system_u:object_r:mqueue_spool_t mqueue/
>
> Do I need to change the context for this directory?
>
> Below are some of the messages from my log file:
>
> Nov 8 23:02:32 kepler kernel: audit(1163044952.697:127322): avc:
> denied { search } for pid=14530 comm="spamassassin" name="mqueue"
> dev=sda8 ino=326413 scontext=user_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:mqueue_spool_t:s0 tclass=dir
> Nov 8 23:02:33 kepler kernel: audit(1163044953.317:127323): avc:
> denied { search } for pid=14530 comm="spamassassin" name="mqueue"
> dev=sda8 ino=326413 scontext=user_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:mqueue_spool_t:s0 tclass=dir
> Nov 8 23:02:33 kepler kernel: audit(1163044953.317:127324): avc:
> denied { search } for pid=14530 comm="spamassassin" name="mqueue"
> dev=sda8 ino=326413 scontext=user_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:mqueue_spool_t:s0 tclass=dir
> Nov 8 23:02:33 kepler kernel: audit(1163044953.317:127325): avc:
> denied { search } for pid=14530 comm="spamassassin" name="mqueue"
> dev=sda8 ino=326413 scontext=user_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:mqueue_spool_t:s0 tclass=dir
Are you running /usr/bin/spamassassin from procmail?
Things may improve from both an SELinux and performance perspective if
you use /usr/bin/spamc instead.
Paul.
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