SELinux won't let dovecot connect to postgresql

[Roland Roberts]

Roland Roberts wrote:
> Roland Roberts wrote:
>> Thomas Harold wrote:
>>> You could try uninstalling and then reinstalling the setroubleshoot 
>>> package.  Specifically "setroubleshoot-server" package contains the 
>>> daemon and init.d file and only depends on the -plugins package.
>
> Oo-oo.  I just discovered something *very* interesting.  When I first 
> set up this host, I set it up in parallel with the existing host it 
> was replacing and it had a different host name. I find, in 
> /var/lib/setroubleshoot/audit_listener_database.xml, the old host 
> name.  Perhaps that's why I'm not getting my messages.  I'm going to 
> try correcting the host name there.  I'm not sure if I *need* to 
> reboot, but I'm not sure what processes will need to be restarted if I 
> don't.

Well, that by itself is not sufficient.  But perhaps these two lines in 
syslog are a clue if only I could decipher them:

dbus: avc:  received setenforce notice (enforcing=0)
tycho dbus: Can't send to audit system: USER_AVC avc:  received 
setenforce notice (enforcing=0)#012: exe="?" (sauid=81, hostname=?, 
addr=?, terminal=?)

roland

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