We have a server in permissive, thank you, so this is just an annoyance, but I want to make it go away. Centos 6.3, current torque 2.5.7-9.el6 It's the head node of a torque cluster. I found someone, while googling, who describes the same error, and presumably the same action resulting in the same result. He writes: Excerpt: We're running Torque 2.3.7 on a central Torque server running RHEL6.3 OS (this old version of Torque is *required* for stable use with the Maui scheduler, see an older thread in this list). We're seeing the following syslog message every time a job completes and sends an E-mail message to the user: setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail from write access on the file /var/spool/torque/server_priv/server.lock. SELinux is enabled in permissive mode, so this is not a severe problem, but it's still a nuisance to have extraneous syslog messages. I prefer having SELinux enabled in order to log security related events. I looked at the Torque code server/svr_mail.c which opens a pipe to execute Sendmail, writes some data and then closes the pipe. The pbs_server's lockfile filename is never written to the Sendmail pipe, so why on earth would SELinux complain about Sendmail trying to write to that lockfile?? Could it be because svr_mail.c closes the pipe by fclose(outmail) in stead of pclose(outmail) as is done in the Torque 2.5 code? --- end excerpt --- So, what can I do to make selinux shut up about this? server.lock is in /var/lib/torque/server_priv, and shows as ll -Z /var/lib/torque/server_priv/ drwxr-x---. root root system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0 ./ drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0 ../ <...> -rw-------. root root system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0 server.lock mark -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux