exim: SELinux

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 07/26/2009 05:45 PM, Frank Chiulli wrote:
> Sorry for the delay in responding.  I've been on the road and unable
> to access my Fedora box.  So after a little grief with SELinux and
> permissions I have a log file of exim.  I'd post it here but it's 724
> lines long.  I looked for boot in the file but came up empty.  Is
> there some snippet of the file that I could post?
> 
> Frank
> 
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Gordon Messmer<yinyang at eburg.com> wrote:
>> On 07/14/2009 07:33 PM, Frank Chiulli wrote:
>>> Here's what I did:
>>>    - as root, I ran '/etc/init.d/exim stop'
>>>    - as root, I ran 'exim -bd -d"+all">/tmp/ex.file 2>&1'
>>>
>>>    - as a normal user, I ran 'fetchmail'
>>>      In the past, this would result in an AVC error; but not this time.
>>>      BTW, there was one new message in my mail file as a result of this.
>> Sadly, starting exim in that way will not give it the same SELinux context
>> as it would get when run by the init process.  If you stop the service and
>> "service exim start", it should get its old context, and the AVC messages
>> should return.  That'll get you back to where you can debug the problem.
>>
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> 
Just compress the log file.