Sendmail cannot write to queue.

[John Summerfield]

Devon Harding wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> For some reason sendmail is not writing to its queue directory to send
>> mail.  What could be causing this?
>>
>> Mar 13 14:19:28 raid sendmail[3087]: m2DIJSML003087: SYSERR(root):
>> collect: Cannot write ./dfm2DIJSML003087 (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=51):
>> Permission denied
>> Mar 13 14:19:28 raid sendmail[3087]: m2DIJSML003087: from=<
>> root at raid.domain.com>, size=463, class=0, nrcpts=1, proto=ESMTP,
>> daemon=MTA, relay=raid.domain.com [127.0.0.1]
>> Mar 13 14:19:28 raid sm-msp-queue[3085]: m2DF78jA002134: to=
>> devon at domain.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=03:12:20, xdelay=00:00:00,
>> mailer=relay, pri=1200307, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0,
>> stat=Deferred: 421 4.3.0 collect: Cannot write ./dfm2DIJSML003087
>> (bfcommit, uid=0, gid=51): Permission denied
>> Mar 13 14:19:28 raid sm-msp-queue[3085]: m2DEP5RL004885: to=root,
>> delay=03:54:23, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=2374400, relay=[
>> 127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred
>>
>> Here are the permissions of the queue directories:
>>
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 root    mail    4.0K 2008-03-12 09:12 mail
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 root    root    4.0K 2008-03-12 09:50 MailScanner
>> drwx------ 2 root    mail    4.0K 2008-03-12 08:17 mqueue
>> drwx------ 2 root    root    4.0K 2008-03-04 07:09 mqueue.in
>>
> 
> 
> Added subject.

What's selinux saying about this?

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