selinux preventing clamd and amavisd even in Permissive

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Dec 3 16:22:13 UTC 2007


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John Griffiths wrote:
> I think I figured it out.
> 
> I had not configured freshclam yet. Even though clamav had the default
> virus databases from clamav-data.i386, clamav system would not start
> until freshclam had updated the databases. I configured freshclam before
> I went out. Apparently, when cron updated the virus databases, clamav
> started normally and opened the missing socket and the email system
> started working properly.
> 
> At least this is my best deduction.
> 
> I don't remember having to have freshclam configured for updates prior
> to email working in Fedora 7. Guess this is a question for a different
> list, but I just wanted to put things to rest.
> 
> Regards,
> John
> 
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In permissive mode, SELinux will not prevent anything from happening
although it will report avc messages like it did.  setroubleshoot will
still interpret these messages like SELinux had prevented the access.
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