symlink of /home causes mail delivery failure

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Thu Oct 11 14:42:41 UTC 2007


Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> I tried to make my /home directory a symlink to something on a 
> different disk (i.e., symlink across filesystems). It appeared to work 
> fine when browsing directories, but mail delivery stopped!
>
> I'm using Postfix, with procmail doing the local delivery.
>
> Is there any reason that procmail (or anything else) would fail if 
> /home is a symlink?

Is your system configured to Enforce SELinux controls?  If so, you may 
need to use "restorecon" to fix your home directory labels.  I think 
this is what you'd want:

restorecon -R /home/.




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