sendmail attempting to read to /dev/hda

[Mike A. Harris]

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. ;)