[CentOS] Procmail/Formail problem on 6.3

Fred Smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Mon Feb 25 11:45:51 UTC 2013


On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:30:54PM -0600, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 02/24/2013 08:29 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> > Looking in /var/log/messages, I see a whole bunch of these:
> >
> > Feb 24 16:53:32 fcshome kernel: type=1400 audit(1361742812.414:9): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=3381 comm="procmail" name="Mail" dev=dm-2 ino=6162243 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=dir
> >
> > which I GUESS is telling me selinxu is whining about SOMETHING, but I
> > don't know enough about it to tell what.
> 
> Somehow your "Mail" directory has lost its SELinux labeling 
> ("tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0").  At a minimum, you should
> run "restorecon -rv $HOME" to restore the contexts for everything under your
> home directory.  It might be best to relabel the whole system by doing
> "touch /.autorelabel" and rebooting, but that can take a long time if you
> have large filesystems.

Thanks, Robert, I'll look into that.

Fred

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