Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 14:48, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
>
> > LOGFILE=/root/procmail.log
> > LOGABSTRACT=yes
> > VERBOSE=1
> >
> > and send mail to "root" then I actually see an abstract appended to
> > /root/procmail.log which is consistent with the procmail man page in
> > that it says $HOME/.procmailrc will get processed. I leaped,
> > incorrectly it would appear, to the conclusion that $HOME referred to
> > the mail target. It must be referring to the User running procmail,
> > i.e. "root" on a stock Fedora Core system, which makes considerable
> > sense. This, I believe, is the crux of my battles.
>
> $HOME is the expansion of the environment variable HOME, which
> is set to the 6th field of the user's /etc/passwd file entry,
> i.e. their home directory. This happens in a straightforward
> way during logins and is emulated in procmail runs.
>
> > So that raises the question: how does one configure mail (sendmail or
> > otherwise) on a stock Fedora Core system so that ~User/.procmailrc
> > will be processed for all User's on the system?
>
> ~user is expanded in a shell to the same thing as $HOME would be for
> that user. Sendmail should, by default, use procmail for everyone
> which should then process their .procmailrc but it will not trust
> files where the permissions allow write access by others.
Excellent. This insight has led to the real culprit: selinux.
Disabling selinux leads to FC4 level behavior so it is a safe bet that
a more stringent FC5 selinux setting is what is ailing me. Now,
ideally, I should be able to google FC5, selinux and mail and get some
insight. Not so. Anyone have a reference where I can learn what
FC5 now expects from sendmail/procmail to make selinux happy? The
entries in /var/log/messages are not exactly real informative:
May 13 21:22:04 roamer kernel: audit(1147569724.815:39): avc: denied { search } for pid=26417 comm="procmail" name="log" dev=dm-0 ino=4128796 scontext=system_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
-pmr
