On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:47:15AM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote: Hi Stephen, > > > > As a mater of interest, I have a procmail recipe which writes a copy of every > > mail I receive to a backup area on my /dev/sda8 partition, mounted as > > /mnt/backup/ by fstab. (It is an ext3 partition). > > > > I have tried doing: > > "restorecon -v -R /mnt/backup" > > and even: > > "fixfiles relabel" > > > > on this partition, but I gather this will not work. I think that I must > > somehow define a policy for this (and probably other) partition(s), but I am > > unclear as to how to go about this. > > You might try something like this, assuming that you only store mail > files under /mnt/backup and only procmail requires access: > > semanage fcontext -a -t mail_spool_t "/mnt/backup(/.*)?" > restorecon -v -R /mnt/backup > Thanks! This is really helpful. > If you need other things to be able to access it, then we'll have to > know more to decide how to label it, or you could possibly move it to a > subdir of /mnt/backup like /mnt/backup/spool that can be devoted to > procmail's use. > Well, before I try the above commands... Generally it is only procmail that needs access, however, I have this file "rotated" by logrotate (run as root) on a monthly basis. It is rotated with the "date" extension and that file is archived by a cron job (root) to DVD. Oh, and I have a daily backup routine that uses "tar" run from a cron job that also includes this directory... Will those things invalidate your suggested solution? Thanks again for you help so far. Much Appreciated... Mark
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