exim: SELinux

[Gordon Messmer]

On 07/14/2009 07:33 PM, Frank Chiulli wrote:
>
> Here's what I did:
>     - as root, I ran '/etc/init.d/exim stop'
>     - as root, I ran 'exim -bd -d"+all">/tmp/ex.file 2>&1'
>
>     - as a normal user, I ran 'fetchmail'
>       In the past, this would result in an AVC error; but not this time.
>       BTW, there was one new message in my mail file as a result of this.

Sadly, starting exim in that way will not give it the same SELinux 
context as it would get when run by the init process.  If you stop the 
service and "service exim start", it should get its old context, and the 
AVC messages should return.  That'll get you back to where you can debug 
the problem.