Re: sendmail attempting to read to /dev/hda

["Mike A. Harris" <mharris mharris ca>]

Tomas Mraz wrote:
> 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.

Wow, thanks.  ;)

I'd have never suspected something like that in a billion years. ;)