Re: sendmail attempting to read to /dev/hda

[Tomas Mraz <tmraz redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 07:33 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Using FC6, I get the following SELinux warnings in /var/log/messages
> every time I reboot:
> 
> Dec 13 07:18:21 localhost setroubleshoot:      SELinux is preventing 
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail (system_mail_t) "read" to /dev/hda 
> (fixed_disk_device_t).      For complete SELinux messages. run sealert 
> -l 334bcb59-54ff-414f-bd52-f32c49
> 90df4a
> Dec 13 07:18:22 localhost setroubleshoot:      SELinux is preventing 
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail (system_mail_t) "read" to /dev/hda 
> (fixed_disk_device_t).      For complete SELinux messages. run sealert 
> -l 334bcb59-54ff-414f-bd52-f32c49
> 90df4a

Known problem of smartd leaking file descriptor when calls sendmail.

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Tomas Mraz
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