On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 21:42 -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> 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 $HOME would be for
> > that user. Sendmail should, by default, use procmail for everyone
> > which should then process their .procmailrc but it will not trust
> > files where the permissions allow write access by others.
>
> Excellent. This insight has led to the real culprit: selinux.
> Disabling selinux leads to FC4 level behavior so it is a safe bet that
> a more stringent FC5 selinux setting is what is ailing me. Now,
> ideally, I should be able to google FC5, selinux and mail and get some
> insight. Not so. Anyone have a reference where I can learn what
> FC5 now expects from sendmail/procmail to make selinux happy? The
> entries in /var/log/messages are not exactly real informative:
>
> May 13 21:22:04 roamer kernel: audit(1147569724.815:39): avc: denied { search } for pid=26417 comm="procmail" name="log" dev=dm-0 ino=4128796 scontext=system_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
>
>
> -pmr
>
I am having the same problem with FC5 and selinux. My system worked
fine with FC4 but is failing with FC5. I am using procmail to store
spam in created directory ie /save/home/$USER/Mail/spam. When I turn
selinux off I can get procmail to work perfectly, but when I turn
selinux back on it fails to be able to write in this directory. I know
very little about selinux and would appreciate some references as to
changes from FC4 to FC5 as well.
Greg Ennis
