seliux denying spamd write access to its own user home dir

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:43:50 -0500
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> >Try this:
> ># restorecon -RF /home/*/.spamassassin/
> >
> I can do this right now, hang on.  Quick, less than a second.  Now we
> wait to see if it throw up another icon to match the incoming mail
> beep.  Yes, it took nearly a minute after procmail.log showed it, for
> it to get here, and now another mail has arrived with no alert and
> denial.
> 
> Thanks Paul, and a big bow in your direction.

Thanks.

> >On F9 at least, I believe ~/.spamassassin should have context type
> >user_spamassassin_home_t rather than home_root_t which is what you
> >seem to have now.
> >
> >If this fixes things for you, it's likely that there are other
> >similar issues that will need fixing up, and doing a relabel will be
> >a good idea when you can spare the time.
> >
> >Paul.
> 
> I did a "touch /.autorelabel" about tuesday evening after one
> install, and it seemed to be ignored on the reboot.  Is that not the
> correct method?

That is the correct method. Are you sure there wasn't a typo? If the
file has been ignored, it should still be there now.

Paul.