SELinux doesn't know about spamassassin and sendmail

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Feb 17 14:01:07 UTC 2009


G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> SELinux is constantly complaining that the spamassassin daemon (spamc) 
> doesn't have permissions to do various things to sendmail (read write, 
> getattr, etc...)
> 
> This is the main reason that I have been ignoring SELinux and running in 
> permissive mode.  It's probably about time to complain and ask someone 
> to fix it since I've not got the ability to do so.

Might this be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485426 ?
If so, have you tried switching to enforcing mode and testing if it 
still actually works despite the denials?

How are you using spamassassin with sendmail - spamass-milter?

> I apologize if this is the wrong list.

fedora-selinux-list would probably be a better place.

Paul.




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